A sixth-generation descendant of southwest Newfoundland, Russell A. Bragg, BA, BEd, MA (Linguistics), National Marshall McLuhan Fellow, claims Suffolk, West Country, Scots Argyll, Channel Islands, and Bay St. George Mi'kmaw ancestry. A graduate thesis on Mi'kmaw, and introductions to Rev. Dr. Silas T. Rand's Dictionary of the Language of the Micmac Indians and Jeremiah S. Clark's Micmac Dictionary preceded this book. Russell lives in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia.