Micmac Texts (Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series)
Publisher: Canadian Museum Of Civilization
Published: May 1991
Language: eng; mic
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780660129075
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Native American Languages; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; American Indigenous Languages; History: American
Description: Contains texts in side-by-side, line-for-line, literal translations of Micmac and English, to assist non-Micmac readers who wish to learn Micmac or to interpret written texts. Texts include oral histories about the coming of the Europeans, a ghost story, a story about Gluscap, a Micmac and Maliseet cultural hero, and a recorded conversation. Texts were collected in 1961 both in Nova Scotia proper and Cape Breton Island.