Mi’kmaq and the Inuit around 1980

Mi’kmaq around 1980

Inuit around 1980

• The sea and the mountains
• Southwest of Quebec: Gaspé

• The Mi’kmaq, Gaspé’s first settlers
• Quebec’s Mi’kmaq population of 2 300

• At the treeline
• North of the 55th parallel, New Quebec 
• Adapting to the Great North

• Félix Leclerc (1914-1988)

• The Mi’kmaq in the Canadian Army

• Tamusi Qumaq… between traditional
  and modern times

• Young and old

• Young and old

• Living in Maria

• Living in Kangiqsualujjuaq during the 1980s

• A mixed culture… Mi’kmaq and Catholic
• Mi’kmaq – an endangered language
• The creation of the world by Glooscap

• Our culture
• The Legend of Sedna
• Our language: Inuktitut
• The first Inuit novel

• A changed economy
• Fishing

• Our economy

• Assimilation and ancestral traditions
• The Indian Act
• The Mi’kmaq nation

• The Inuit Nation

• Living far from urban centers
• Television, radio, newspapers

• A hard-to-reach region
• Dogsleds