Old Man Told Us (new edition)
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2015
- Category
- Native American
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771083362
- Publish Date
- Jul 2015
- List Price
- $26.95
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Description
The Mi'kmaq people have been living in what is now Atlantic Canada for two thousand years or more, yet written history has largely ignored them, presenting them merely as a homogeneous mass or as statistics. Renowned Micmac specialist Ruth Holmes Whitehead, formerly staff ethnologist and assistant curator in history at the Nova Scotia Museum, tries to redress that omission by restoring to the collective memory a true sense of the Mi'kmaq. In this rich collection, oral and written, Mi'kmaq accounts juxtapose contemporary European perceptions of native peoples, as documented in letters, journals, court cases, and much more. Above all, The Old Man Told Us is a historical jigsaw puzzle, a display of fragments of broken mirror in which one can capture moments in the lives of particular people. It is a book of excerpts from whatever scattered documentation has survived over the centuries.
About the author
Ruth Holmes Whitehead has worked since 1972 for the Nova Scotia Museum, since 2003 as a Curator Emerita and Research Associate. She has authored or co-authored twenty books, including Stories from the Six Worlds, The Old Man Told Us, Black Loyalists, and Ancestral Images. In 1995, she was awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, by St. Francis Xavier University. In 2014, Dr. Whitehead was inducted into the Order of Nova Scotia. She lives in Halifax.
Other titles by
Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920
A Remembrance of the Dead and an Archive for the Living
Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images
The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography
Black Loyalists
Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities
Stories From the Six Worlds (2nd edition)
Mi'kmaw Legends
Six Mi'kmaq Stories
Stories From the Six Worlds
The Life of Boston King
Old Man Told Us
Six Micmac Stories
The Mi'kmaq
How Their Ancestors Lived 500 Years Ago