The Micmacby Ruth Holmes Whitehead (a youth's book)
How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago
- by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee with illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach
- published by Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1983
- softcover, about 8 by 7 inches, 60 pages
- this book is still in print and this is a new unsed copy
- quoted from the introduction......."Five hundred years ago, the first European explorers sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of an unknown continent. In the north, between the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and the southern end of the Bay of Fundy, they found the land already occupied by a people now called the Micmac. The name Micmac comes from their word nikmaq which means ‘my kin-friends'. The Micmac used this word as a greeting, when speaking to the newcomers from Europe. Later the French adopted the term, and began addressing these Indian friends and allies as nikmaqs. Over the years, the word came to be written as ‘Micmac"......"
- chapters include......Abundant Forest, Rivers of Fish, Family and Community, Traditional Micmac Skills, Medicine and Magic......
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