Links

These links have been reviewed but at times websites change addresses. To report a broken link or recommend a new link please email: gordon@glooscapheritagecentre.com

http://www.glooscapheritagecentre.com
Will soon have host of links, Question and Answer page where questions are given to people with expertise to answer correctly, lesson plan ideas, contacts for public speakers and workshop holders. Still under construction but will be ready to launch very soon.

http://www.muiniskw.org
Culture, history, issues, spirituality, oral traditions, language, and events.

http://www.danielnpaul.com
Has many useful links, wealth of information on history, education, current issues, the Indian Act, and profiles of influential people.

http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/mikmaq_intermediate.pdf
Lesson plan for using the Four directions website - Stephen Augustine's Mi'kmaq Creation Story - understanding the worldview the story represents.

http://iportal.usask.ca/index.php?sid=992445708&t=index&having=288216
Indigenous Studies Portal
Excellent research site for High School students. Search engine for journals, electronic pdf's, and websites related to First Nation topics.

http://www.native-languages.org/mikmaq.htm
Links to language, culture, history, issues, spirituality, and legends.

http://www.americanindian.net/links12mi%27kmaq.html
94 links to useful sites specifically about Mi'kmaq culture and History.
Author: Phil Konstantin

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mikmaq/
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

http://mrc.uccb.ns.ca
Mi'kmaq Resource Centre
Updates Mi'kmaq reading lists regularly and links to other interesting sites

http://www.redcrane.ca
Alan Syliboy's website. View his art, bio, and many great links to Native art sites.

http://www.ncns.ca
Native Council of NS

http://www.mikmaqonline.org
Mi'kmaq Online talking dictionary - translate English words into Mi'kmaq or Mi'kmaq words into English and listen how to pronounce them.

http://collectionscanada.ca/aboriginal/020008-2000-e.html
Not focused specifically on Mi'kmaq FN but has a wealth of information on First Nation issues

http://canadiana.org/citm/themes/aboriginals_e.html
Canadiana has lots of information about Treaties and early relations between Europeans and First Nations.

http://home.cshore.com/waaban/games.html
A catalogue to order traditional games and crafts from a variety of First Nation groups. Interesting just to see the variety and games and puzzles that were played in different parts of North America.

http://www.firstnationhelp.com
First Nation Help Desk is a great resource - talking posters, books, and videos of elder storytelling. Listen to songs and read the words in Mi'kmaq to familiar tunes - O'Kanata for example.

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/tresors/ethno/etb0160e.shtml
Museum of Civilization's Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage has many very interesting links and information and photographs of material culture. If you click on kids and teachers from this page there are a number of great children's activities.

http://www.invisiblebooks.com/Rand.pdf
Complete transcriptions of Silas T. Rand's transcribed Legends of Glooscap. Keep in mind that he was not a perfect speaker of the Mi'kmaq language and filtered the stories through a European missionaries understanding of the world. He was the first missionary we know of to try to create a Mi'kmaq orthography and transcribe stories.

http://www.invisiblebooks.com/Rand2.pdf
Second half of legends

http://www.indianheadfirstnations.com/mikmaqlinks.htm
A lot of good links sorted by category.

http://nativedance.ca/index.php/Mi'kmaq?tp=p&bg=1&ln=e
Information about Mi'kmaq dances.

http://www2.brandonu.ca/library//cjns/24.2/cjnsv24no2_pg403-423.pdf
Interesting article about pre-contact Mi'kmaq life

http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/2003/v14/n1/010320ar.pdf
"The Miíkmaq, Poor Settlers, and the Nova Scotia Fur Trade, 1783-1853"
Intreresting article on NS Fur trade

http://www.firstnationsdrum.com
Online journal with focus on Canada's First Nations issues.