Culture
Canadian Thanksgiving: A short history lesson on the Mi’kmaq
Before the great North American landscape was “discovered” by fellows like John Cabot, Jacques Cartier or other European colonizers, this bountiful land which we celebrate on Thanksgiving was the home of fish. Make that, is the home of fish. Fish, who as Dr. Leroy Little Bear states, are older than the dinosaurs and we cannot imagine the inherent wisdom they carry with them. Our countries’ fish has been caught in Miꞌkmaꞌki, the territory of the Mi’kmaq peoples (pronounced meeg maw) since before any other person whose name we readily recognize.