Ntatugwaqanminen: Our Story: Evolution of the Gespegewagi Migmaq by Gespegewagi Migmawei Mawiomi
English | January 1st, 2016 | ISBN: 1552667715 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2.08 MB
English | January 1st, 2016 | ISBN: 1552667715 | 320 pages | EPUB | 2.08 MB
Ntatugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Migmaq of the Gespegewagi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole occupants of it prior to European settlement and occupied it on a continuous basis.
This book was written through an alliance between the Migmaq of Northern Gespegewagi (Gaspé Peninsula), their Elders and a group of eminent researchers in the field with the aim of reclaiming their history, both oral and written, in the context of what is known as knowledge re-appropriation. It also provides non-Aboriginal peoples with a view of how Migmaq history looks when it is written from an Indigenous perspective.
There are two voices in the book that of the Migmaq of the Gespegewagi, including the Elders, as they act as narrators of the collective history, and that of the researchers, who studied all possible aspects of this history, including advanced investigation on place names as indicators of migration patterns.
Ntatugwaqanminen speaks of the Gespegewagi Migmaq vision, history, relation to the land, past and present occupation of the territory and their place names and what they reveal in terms of ancient territorial occupation. It speaks of the treaties they agreed to with the British Crown, the respect of these treaties on the part of the Migmaq people and the disrespect of them from the various levels of governments. This book speaks about the dispossession the Migmaq of Gespegewagi had to endure while the European settlers illegally occupied and developed the Gaspé Peninsula to their own advantage and the rights and titles the Migmaq people still have on their lands.
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