| The Old Man Told Us |
| Excerpts from Micmac History 1500-1950 |
| Ruth Holmes Whitehead |
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.
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.
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