- Publisher: Cape Breton University Press
- ISBN: 9781897009499
- Price: $19.95 CAD
- Publication Date: Mar 2012
- Rights: World
- Pages: 260
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Request Exam CopyLanguage of this Land Mi’kma’ki
Edited by Bernie Francis, Trudy Sable
The ancient landscapes of Eastern North America are reflected in the language and cultural expressions – the legends, songs and dances – of its Indigenous peoples, the Mi’kmaq. The rhythms, sounds and patterns of their language are inextricably bound with the seasonal cycles of the animals, plants, winds, skies, waterways and trade routes.
Language has sustained the Mi’kmaq to the present day, a product of a lineage of Elders who spoke it, who danced the dances and walked this land, Mi’kma’ki, carrying its traditions forward despite centuries of cultural disruption, discrimination and degradation.
The Language of this Land is an exploration of Mi’kmaw worldview as expressed in language, song and dance. Using imagery as codes, legends, song and dance articulate not only place names, but geologic history as well.
Sable and Francis illustrate the fluid nature of reality inherent in its expression – its embodiment in networks of relationships with landscape integral to the cultural psyche and spirituality of the Mi’kmaq.