July 1999 discussion between Bernie Francis and Trudy Sable

Keywords:
attributing animacy and inanimacy, attributing value and importance to objects, Creator, difference between Mi’kmaw and English thought process, ekwitk; kwitn, grammatical and cognitive aspects of animacy and inanimacy, interconnectedness, Kisu'lkw, maqtewe'k, respect
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable
Date:
July 5, 1999
Location:
Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia, Canada

Interview: Irving Dana

Keywords:
birchbark, building canoe, canoeing, cedar, picking medicines, Pine Cone / Pine Needle Dance, spruce roots, spruce sap
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Irving Dana with Trudy Sable
Date:
Nov. 1, 1995
Location:
Kjipuktuk (Halifax) Nova Scotia

Interview: Peter Robinson

Keywords:

Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Wallis Nevin
Date:
Nov. 10, 1992
Location:
Sɨkɨpne’katik Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

Interview: Anna Nibby-Woods

Keywords:
Chiefs, confederacy, consultation, Education, employment, hunting, land use, Mi'kmaw training, Nature, Parks Canada, Peter Claire, Port Royal, Programs, Rita Smith, Shubenacadie, tourism, Training, values
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Anna Nibby-Woods
Date:
Jan. 20, 1991
Location:
Micmac Heritage Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Interview: Trevor Gould

Keywords:
award, Blacks, community, compassion, drum, drum group, graduation, home, humbleness, inspiration, leadership, Lions club, multi-cultural, Natives, Racism, school presidents, Terry Fox Humanitarian Award, Whites, Youth Leader
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trevor Gould
Date:
Jun. 6, 2001
Location:
Paqtnkek First Nation Band Office, Nova Scotia

Interview: Bernie Francis – Parks Canada Segment

Keywords:
Annapolis Royal film, Interpretation, Louisbourg, Mi'kmaw employment, mock take over, Parks Canada, Parks Programs
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Bernie Francis
Date:
Jan. 5, 1992
Location:
Sydney, Nova Scotia

Interview: Joseph L. Meuse

Keywords:
Bear River, buffalo hide, culture, directions, Dreams, drugs and alcohol, Drumming, drums, Elders, Identity, Indian Brook, Mi'kmaw dance, Mother Earth, nokamaq, outfits, prayers, Shubenacadie, signals, South Dakota, States, Sun Dance, Sun Dance Chief, teenagers, visions, Waltes
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Joe Meuse
Date:
Dec. 15, 2005
Location:
Sɨpekne’katik (Shubenacadie) First Nation, Nova Scotia

Interview: Sable, Vaughan Doucette and Margaret Johnson CBC Radio

Keywords:
Birch Creek singers, Dance, feast, feast song, Grand Council wigwam, Healing, powwows, prayer, Recovery, sobriety, Tom Paul, traditional dances, traditional values, traditionalists
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Margaret Johnson, Vaughan Doucette
Date:
Oct. 10, 1992
Location:
CBC, Sydney, N.S.

Interview: Daniel N. Paul

Keywords:
Americas, attire, Blacks, Canadian Council of Churches, Charles Lawrence, Cornwallis, employment, European civilization, extermination, French, human rights, image of Native people, Indian agent, Interpretation of History/Culture, Israel, Joe Howe, leadership, Liquor, Lord Nelson, Louisbourg, Parks, population, Port Royal, Registered Indian, royal proclamation, scalping, self-government, slaughter, slavery, stereotyping, superiority complex, systemic racism, Treaties, United Nations, Waterloo, We Were Not the Savages, women
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Daniel Paul
Date:
Nov. 12, 1991
Location:
Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaw, Millbrook First Nation, Truro, Nova Scotia

Interview: Alex Denny

Keywords:
Ben Sylliboy, Canada Welfare Act, Catholicism, Chapel Island, Charles Hearney, Chief and Council, Elders, employment, Eskasoni, Eskissoqnik (Eskasoni) First Nation, fortress, French, Grand Chief Sylliboy, Grand Council, hereditary Grand Chief, John D Jonhson, Kejimkujik, Language, Louisbourg, Merigomish, Mi'kmaw history, Mission, Nicholas Denys, Parks, Potlotek, Rodney Pierro, Roman Catholic Church, Section 9124, Spain, Tom Marshall, Union of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq, welfare
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Alex Denny, Trudy Sable
Date:
Jan. 8, 1992
Location:
Eskissoqnik (Eskasoni) First Nation, Cape Breton, NS

Interview: Stephen Augustine

Keywords:
Big Cove, burial grounds, burials, caribou, Chiefs, Creation, diseases, Elders, folklore, Grandmother, handcrafts, hunting and fishing, indigenous rights, Innu, Kouchibouguac, livelihood, luskinikn, management, mother, ownership, Parks, Parks Programs, sacred, spiritual connection, Treaties, weapons
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Stephen Augustine, Trudy Sable
Date:
Aug. 17, 1991
Location:
En route from Elispotog (Big Cove) First Nation to Airport

Interview: Bernie Francis

Keywords:
anger, conversion, Creator, Devil, Education, holophrastic, Jesus, Kis'lkw, Language, Legends, Manitou, medicine man, Mi'kmuesu, Missionaries, Mntu, Niskam, notion of worship, Puoin, sin, spirtuality, two-rootedness
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Dr. Bernie Francis & Dr. Trudy Sable
Date:
Jan. 16, 1999
Location:
Kjipuktuk (Halifax) N.S (home of Trudy Sable)

Interview: Joe Peters

Keywords:
Annapolis, apples, Ash, Baseball, bats, Bay of Fundy, Bear River, Brain Tanning, canoe tilting, canoes, Cherry Carnival, clear cut, competition, Digby, discrimination, Don Messer, fisheries, Fishing, Forestry, Frank Gould, French, funeral, Guides, Headdress, Hockey, horseshoe, hymns, Lake Williams, log rolling, Louis Pictou, Meause family, Moose Hunting, New Brunswick, Old Fashion Ball, Peter Michael, Peters point, porpoise, porpoise oils, rag ball, running, second world war, Service, skates, skis, Softball, St Anne's, St Martins, steamers, toboggan, tug-o-war, violin, white people, Yarmouth Gateways
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Joe Peters
Date:
Jan. 31, 1993
Location:
Kluskap First Nation, Middleton, Nova Scotia

Interview: Wilfred Prosper

Keywords:
Barra Head, Baseball, Bill Bernard, Blomidon, Chapel Island, Charlie (T.W.) Francis, Checker, Fairy Caves, Isaac Alec, Joe Boutilier, Mary Brooks, Mattie Lewis, Neskawaqn, O'l Pasn Game, One-Armed Ben Johnson, Peter GooGoo, Pictou, Pitching Pennies, Priests, Simon Cremo, Step Dancing, Tom Marshall, Uniforms, War, Wilf Carter, Work
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Wilfred Prosper
Date:
Jul. 23, 1992
Location:
Eskissoqnik (Eskasoni) First Nation, Nova Scotia

Interview: Frank Nevin

Keywords:
Acadian, Ben Brooks, Black, Chapel Island, Charlie Francis, Dance Circle, Dance Competitions, Education, French, Gould Family, Grand Council, Grandmother, Identity, Indian Island, Intermarriage, Jobs, Martin Sack, Mi'kma'ki, Mr. Knockwood, Old Big Louie Paul, Passamaquoddy, Raymond Francis, Residential School, Rickey Gould, Saint Anne's Day, Wampanoags
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Gary Joseph for Trudy Sable, partner on the Native Dance Project, Frank Nevin
Date:
Dec. 20, 2020
Location:
Sɨkɨpne’katik (Shubenacadie) First Nation

Interview: Margaret Johnson – Life History

Keywords:
Ancestry, Bay of Fundy, Dances, Dreams, Fishing, Grand Council, Kluskap, MacDonald, Margaret Johnson, Oysters, Pecks, PEI, Port Hood, Rocky Point, Selling & Making Baskets, Sewing, songs, Sweetgrass
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Margaret Johnson
Date:
Jul 11, 1994
Location:
En route from PEI to Port Hood, N.S.

Interview: Noel Doucette

Keywords:
Burial, Catholicism, Chapel Island, Commercialization, Grand Council, Indian Day School, Medjugorje, Missionaries, Parks, Portage, Saint Anne, Sarah Denny
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Noel Doucette
Date:
Jan. 9, 1992
Location:
Band Office in Potlotek

Interview: Frank Meuse

Keywords:
Bear River, Burial, Canadian Forestry, Canadian Forestry Association, Canoeing Trips, Education, Erskine, Fishing Rights, Forest Management, Fort Anne, Hunting Rights, Interpretation, Joint Management, Kejimkujik, Land Claims, Nova Scotia Museum, Parks, Petroglyphs, Port Royal, Remains, Training
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Chief Frank Meuse
Date:
Jan. 1, 1992
Location:
L’sitkuk First Nation Band Office, Bear River Nova Scotia

Interview: Donald M. Julien

Keywords:
Burying the Hatchet, Catholicism, Debert, Fort Anne, Germans, Grand Council, Jean Baptiste Cope, Kejimkujik, Lake Rossignol, Le Loutre, Lescarbot, Missionaries, Niskam, Parks, Petroglyphs, Reserves, Scalps, Treaties
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Dr. Donald M. Julien
Date:
Nov. 12, 1991
Location:
Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq, Truro, N.S.

Interview: Vivian Basque – Mi’kmaw Dance

Keywords:
Celebration, Chanters, Cultural Preservation, Dance as Part of Nature, Dance for War, Dance to Call out Spirits, Divorce, Eskasoni Dancers, Ethno-Stress, Joey Gould, Medicine Men, Missionaries, Roman Catholic Church, Sarah Denny, Telekinesis, Western Dances
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Vivian Basque
Date:
Aug. 2, 1992
Location:
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Halifax Nova Scotia.

Interview: Dan Christmas

Keywords:
Aboriginal Land Claims, Collaboration, Historians, Historical Representation, Interpretation of History/Culture, Legal Counsels, Parks Canada, T.A.R.R, Training, Treaties
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Dan Chirstmas
Date:
Jan 1, 1992
Location:
Maulpetu

Interview: Marie Battiste

Keywords:
Centralization, Chapel Island, Chapel Island Mission, Elders, Epiphany, Fiddling, Grand Council, Katawapu, Maine, Mardi Gras, Pestie’wa’taqatimk; Ko’jua, Residential School, Square Dancing, Wla ktansale’m
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Dr. Marie Battiste; Barry Bernard; Annie Battiste; Trudy Sable (Brian Guns also present)
Date:
Jan. 1, 1991
Location:
Eskissoqnik (Eskasoni) First Nation, Cape Breton

Interview: Joeseph (Joe) Levi Sylliboy

Keywords:
Baseball, Bayfield, Centralization, Constable, Dance, Drumming, Father Chaisson, Fiddling, Heatherton, Influence of Western tribes, Inverness, Living on the Land, Merigomish, Pictou, Residential and Day schools, Shubenacadie, Sports, Step and Square Dancing
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Joeseph Levi Sylliboy
Date:
Jun. 4, 1993
Location:
Joesph's Home in Sɨkɨpne’katik (Shubenacadie) First Nation, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.

Dr. Bernie Francis Indigenous Bar Association Speech Dalhousie University

Keywords:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Indigenous Bar Association, Speech
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Bernie Francis, Patricia Monture-Angus, Trudy Sable
Date:
2020-09-30
Location:
Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia

Interview: John Basque

Keywords:
Baseball, Centralization, Dancing, Fidle, Guitar, Hockey, Home Brew, Liquor, Music, One-Armed Ben Johnson, Racism, Resistance, Service, Softball, Sports Equipment, Stradivarius, Wood Cutting, World War II
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, John Basque
Date:
Aug. 24, 1992
Location:
John's Home, Potlotek (Chapel Island) First Nation Community, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Interview: Sandy Julian

Keywords:
Ball Field, Baseball, Bernard, Brooks, Constable, Cope, Francis, Hockey, Martin, Meuse, Money, Old Fashion Ball, Paul, Pictou, Pierro, Priest, Racism, Softball, Teams, Train, Truro, Uniforms and Equipment, War
Archive Collection:
The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable
Participants:
Trudy Sable, Wallis Nevin, Sandy Julian
Date:
Nov. 10, 1992
Location:
Millbrook First Nation, Truro, Nova Scotia