Suggested Further Reading

• Aboriginal Peoples & Section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms
  Bruce Wildsmith / Native Law Centre / ISBN 0888801939
  
  
• Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada: Current Trends & Issues, 3rd Edition
  (ed.) Yale Belanger / Purich Publishing / 2008 / ISBN 9781085830323
  
  
• Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in the Maritimes: The Marshall Decision and Beyond
  Thomas Isaac / 216p. /Purich Publishing Ltd. / 2001 / ISBN 1895830192
  
  
• American Indian Artifacts: How to Identify, Evaluate, and Care for Your Collection
  Ellen Woods/ 232p. / Seven Locks Press/ ISBN 0929765559
  
  
• The Beothuks or Red Indians
  James P. Howley / 357p. /Prospero Canadian Collection / 2001 / ISBN 1552671399
  
  
• Black Spirit: The Way of the Crow
  Laurie Lacey / 104p. / Nimbus Publishing / 1998 /ISBN 1551091526
  
  
• Cibou: A Novel
  Susan Young de Biagi / 255p. / Cape Breton University Press / 2008 / ISBN 9781897009291
  
  
• Clay Pots and Bones - Pka'wo'qq aq Waqntal
  Chief Lindsay Marshall / 95p. /Solus Publishing /1997 / ISBN 1896792022
  
  
• Delgamuukw: the Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Aboriginal Title
  Stan Persky/ 138p. / Douglas & Mac Intyre - Greystone Books / 1998/ ISBN 1550546570
  
  
• The Dispossessed
  Geoffrey York/ 291p. / Mac Arthur & Co. / 1992/ ISBN 1552780619
  
  
• Elitekey - Micmac Material Culture from 1600 AD to the Present
  Ruth Holmes Whitehead / 84p. /The Nova Scotia Museum / 1980 / ISBN 0919680135
  
  
• Elusive Justice: Beyond the Marshall Inquiry
  ed. Joy Manette / 108p. / Fernwood Publishing / 1992 /ISBN 1895686024
  
  
• Essays on North Eastern North America Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries
  John G. Reid / 322p. / University of Toronto Press / 2008 / ISBN 9780802094162
  
  
• Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Canadian Native Women Reclaimed Their Lives After Residential School
  Agnes Grant / Fifth House Books / 2004 / ISBN 9781894856577
  
  
• I Got It From an Elder - Conversations in Healing Language
  Marilyn Iwama, Murdena Marshall, Albert Marshall, Ivar Mendex, & Cheryl Bartlett /
  24p. / Gaspereau Press / 2007 / ISBN 9781554470501
  
  
• In Mi'kmaq Country
  Alice M. Azure / 78p. /Albatross Press / 2007 / ISBN 9780966337112
  
  
• Indian Herbalogy of North America
  Alma Hutchins /424p. /Shambhala Publishers Inc. / 1991 / ISBN 0877736391
  
  
• Indian Reserves in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada
  Richard H. Bartlett / 92p. /University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre: Studies in Aboriginal Rights No.9 / 1986 / ISBN 088880167X
  
  
• Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples: Achieving UN Recognition
  James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson / 240p. / Purich Publishing Ltd. / 2008 / ISBN 9781895830354
  
  
• Making Witches: Newfoundland Traditions of Spells & Counterspells
  Barbara Rieti / 184p. / McGill-Queen's University Press / 2008 / ISBN 9780773533608
  
  
• The Marshall Decision and Native Rights: The Marshall Decision and Mi'kmaq Rights in the Maritimes
  Ken Coates / 216p. / Mc Gill - Queen's Press / 2000 / ISBN 0773521089
  
  
• Me Funny
  Drew Hayden Taylor / 190p. / Douglas & McIntyre / 2005 / ISBN 9781553651376
  
  
• Medicinal & Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes
  Charlotte Erichson-Brown / Dover Publishing / 1989 / ISBN 9780486259512
  
  
• Medicine Walk
  Laurie Lacey / 144p. / Nimbus Publishing / 1999 / ISBN 1551093065
  
  
• Memories of a Micmac Life
  Richard Mac Ewan & W. D. Hamilton /University of New Brunswick: Dept. of Graphic Service/ 1988 / ISBN 0920114865
  
  
• Metallic Migmag - English Reference Dictionary
  Emmaneul Metallic, Danielle Cyr, & Alexandre Sevigny / 392p. / Laval Press / 2005 / ISBN 2763780156 with companion CD
  
  
• Micmac By Choice
  Olga McKenna /194p. /Formac Publishing Co. / 1990 /ISBN 1887800777
  
  
• Micmac of the East Coast
  Robert Leavitt / Fitzhenry & Whiteside/ 1998 / ISBN 1550414690
  
  
• Micmac Indian Medicine
  Laurie Lacey /74p. / Formac Ltd. /1977 / ISBN 0887800025
  
  
• Micmac Legends of Prince Edward Island
  John Joe Sark / Ragweed Press / 1998/ ISBN 0920304915
  
  
• Micmac Medicines: Remedies & Recollections
  Laurie Lacey/ Nimbus Publishing / 1993 /ISBN 1551090414
  
  
• Micmac Quillwork
  Ruth Holmes Whitehead / 230p./ Nova Scotia Museum / 1982 / ISBN 0919680224
  
  
• Micmac Texts
  Albert D. DeBlois / 94p. /Mercury Series - Canadian Museum of Civilization / 1990 /
  ISBN 0660129078
  
  
• The Mi'kmaq Anthology
  ed. Rita Joe & Lesley Choyce / Pottersfield Press /192p. / ISBN 5900042
  
  
• Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayers
  David Schmidt and Murdena Marshall / 182p. / Nimbus Publishing Ltd. / 1995 /
  ISBN 1551090694
  
  
• Mi'kmaq Landscapes: From Animism to Sacred Ecology
  Anne Christine Hornborg / Ashgate Publishing Co. / 2008 / ISBN 9780754663713
  
  
• Mi'kmaq & Maliseet Cultural Ancestral Material
  Stephen J. Augustine / 258p. / Mercury Series, Ethnology Paper 140, Canadian Museum of Civilization / 2005 / ISBN 0660191156
  
  
• Mi'kmaq: People of the Maritimes
  Stephen A. Davis / Nimbus Publishing / 1997 / ISBN 1551091801
  
  
• The Mi'kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival
  Harald E. L. Prins/ 250p. / Harcourt Brace College Publishers / 1996 / ISBN 0030534275
  
  
• Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial
  William Wickens / University of Toronto Press / 2001/ ISBN 0802076653
  
  
• Mikwite'lmanej Mikmaqi'k - Let Us Remember the Old Mi'kmaq
  The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq and the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology / 140p. / Nimbus Publishing Ltd. / 2001 / ISBN 1551093901
  
  
• Mi'sel Joe - An Aboriginal Chief's Journey
  Raoul R. Anderson & John K. Crellin / 172p. / Flanker Press Ltd. / 2009 / ISBN 9781897317426
  
  
• My Mi'kmaq Mother
  Julie Pellissier-Lush / 156p. / RetroMedia Publishing / 2009 / ISBN 9780978181833
  
  
• Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter
  Jennifer Reid / 133p. / University of Ottawa Press / 1995 /ISBN 0776604163
  
  
• Native American Music in Eastern North America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
  Beverly Diamond / 208p. / Oxford University Press / 2007 / ISBN 9780195301045 with companion CD
  
  
• Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends
  Joseph Bruchac / 146p. /Crossing Press Inc. / 1993 / ISBN 089594636X
  
  
• Native Leaders of Canada
  (ed.) Denis L. Daigneault / 120p. / New Federation House / 2009 / ISBN 9780968921548
  
  
• The Native Peoples of Atlantic Canada
  H.F. McGee / 222p. /Carleton University Press / 1983 / ISBN 0886290171
  
  
• Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
  Greg Cajite, Leroy Little Bear /315p. / Clear Light Publications /1999 / ISBN 1574160419
  
  
• The New Buffalo: the Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education
  Blair Stonechild / University of Manitoba Press / 2006 / ISBN 9780887556937
  
  
• No Word for Time: The Way of the Algonquin People
  Evan Pritchard / Council Oak Books / 1997 / ISBN 1571780424
  
  
• The Old Man Told Us
  Ruth Holmes Whitehead / Nimbus Publishing / 1991 / ISBN 0921054831
  
  
• Our Lives in Our Hands: Micmac Indian Basketmakers
  Bunny McBride / Tilbury House / 1990 / ISBN 9780884480846
  
  
• Out of the Depths
  Isabelle Knockwood / 159p. / Roseway Publishing / 1992 /ISBN 096941806X
  
  
• Paqtatek, Volume I: Policy and Consciousness in Mi'kmaq Life
  Stephanie Inglis, Joy Manette, and Stacey Sulewski / 89p. / Garamond Press /
  ISBN 0920059945
  
  
• Pe'l A'tukwey: Let Me...Tell a Story
  Viviane Gray / 58p. / Art Gallery of Nova Scotia / 1993 / ISBN 0888712693
  
  
• Port- Royal Habitation 1604-1613: The Story of the French & Mi'kmaq at Port-Royal
  W. P. Kerr /106p. / Nimbus Publishing / 2005 / ISBN 1551095254
  
  
• Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge
  Marie Battiste and James Sakej Henderson / Purich Publishing / 2000 / ISBN 189583015X
  
  
• Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision
  ed. Marie Battiste / 314p. / University of British Columbia Press / 2000 / ISBN 0774807458
  
  
• Red Earth: Tales of the Micmac
  Marion Robertson /84p. / Roseway Publishing / 1999 / ISBN 1896496083
  
  
• Revisiting Anne Marie: How an Amerindian Woman of Seventeenth Century Nova Scotia and a DNA Match Redefine American Heritage
  Marie Rundquist / 138p. / Booksurge / 2009 / ISBN 9781439205006
  
  
• Rise Again!: The Story of Cape Breton Island - Book One
  Dr. Robert Morgan / 232p. / Breton Books / 2008 / ISBN 9781895415810
  
  
• Settlement, Nesting Territories & Conflicting Legal Systems in a Micmac Community
  Daniel P. Strouthes / 496p. / Yale Peabody Museum / 2010 / ISBN 9780300163650
  
  
• Six Micmac Stories
  Ruth Holmes Whitehead / 50p. / N.S. Museum/Nimbus Publishing / 1989 / ISBN 0919680356
  [Also see Companion Audio Tapes].
  
  
• The Stone Canoe: Two Lost Mi'kmaq Texts
  Elizabeth Paul, Peter Sanger, & Alan Syliboy / 185p. / Gaspereau Press Printers & Publishers / 2007 / ISBN 9781554470433
  
  
• Storied Shores: St. Peter's, Isle Madame, & Chapel Island in the 17th & 18th Centuries
  A.J.B. Johnson / 156 p./ UCCB Press/ 2004 / ISBN 1897009003
  
  
• Stories from the Six Worlds: Micmac Legends
  Ruth Holmes Whitehead / 242p. / Nimbus Publishing Ltd. / 1988 / ISBN 0921054149
  
  
• Ta'n Teli-ktlamsitasit (Ways of Believing) - Mi'kmaw Religion in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia
  Angela Robinson / 158p. Volume 3 of the Canadian Ethonography Series /Pearson-Prentice Hall / 2005 / ISBN 0-13-177067-5
  
  
• This Day in North American Indian History
  Phil Konstantin / 456p. / Da Capo Press / 2002 / ISBN 0306811707
  
  
• Tracking Doctor Lonecloud
  Ruth Holmes Whitehead / 183p. /Goose Lane Editions & Nova Scotia Museum / 2002 / ISBN 0864923562
  
  
• Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900
  Ruth B. Phillips / 334p. / University of Washington Press / 1998 / ISBN 077351807X
  
  
• An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia
  Geoffrey Plank / 239p. / University of Pennsylvania Press / 2004 / ISBN 0-8122-1869-8
  
  
• We Were Not the Savages - New 21st Century Edition
  Daniel Paul / 400p. / Fernwood Publishing / 2000 / ISBN 1552660397
  
  
• Wild Plants of Eastern Canada
  Marilyn Walker / Nimbus Publishing / 2008 / ISBN 9781551096155
  
  

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