October is Mi’kmaw History Month, and this year’s theme is A’tukwemk aq A’tukowinu’k—Storytelling and Storytellers.
This theme celebrates the power of stories in Mi’kma’ki and recognizes how storytelling is a living record of Mi’kmaw science, history, values and more.
University Librarian Tracy Lenfesty has put together a list of recommended reads to help you learn and celebrate this Mi’kmaw History Month.
The Blind Man’s Eyes : New and Selected Poetry by Rita Joe
Edited by Ronald Caplan. First edition. Wreck Cove, N.S.: Breton Books, 2015
Chief Lightning Bolt by Daniel N. Paul
Halifax, N.S. & Winnipeg, Man.: Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, 2017
Niniskamijinaqik = Ancestral Images : The Mi’kmaq in Art and Photography by Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing, 2015
The Language of This Land, Mi’kma’ki by Trudy Sable, Bernie Francis, Roger J Lewis and William P Jones
Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press, 2012
Lnu and Indians We’re Called by Rita Joe
Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed, 1991
The Mi’kmaq Anthology by Rita Joe and Lesley Choyce
Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1997
Elapultiek = We Are Looking Towards … by Shalan Joudry
East Lawrencetown, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 2019
Waking Ground by Shalan Joudry and Gaspereau Press
Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2020
Song of Rita Joe : Autobiography of a Mi’kmaw Poet by Rita Joe
Wreck Cove, N.S.: Breton Books, 2011
Mi’kmaq-Maliseet Nations News. Truro, N.S.: The Confederacy of Mainland Micmacs, 1991 – (News/Journalism)
