Early Trade Between the Mi’kmaq and the Basque

Stephen Augustine, Associate Vice President, Indigenous Affairs & Unama'ki College, Cape Breton University discusses the early trade between the Mi’kmaq and the Basque.

[@TheUrszulat]

Such a lovely, knowledgeable person.

[@1337pryncess]

I wish there were online resources for the oral treasures he's talking about. I'd love to learn more!~

[@jasoncroteau8013]

m'ikmaq had published 1888 gypsy lore society in nova scotia mikmaki . this is also a publication covering natives

[@daleparker4207]

Interesting

[@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643]

Shirt in basque = atorra

[@inputJack1138]

Funny he doesn't mention Mi'qmak alphabet is hebrew alphabet or the lost tribes of Israel in America.

[@giqwaju3691]

Yeah, because clearly someone who can only read and write Hebrew can magically bust out skills in hieroglyph alphabet. Fuck off with your "lost tribes of Israel" fantasy bullshit and stay in reality. When it comes to pre-Euro contact times, we have nothingto do with Israel or middle eastern based religion. There's always someone trying to crash the party and be part of something they can't be in. So, the next step is to try to make up some "connection" where they can purport to have some kind of informational "authority" over us while quoting a book written by power and control hungry men centuries after the claimed events while trying to pass it off as "eye witness testimony." Keep your sneaky tricks to your own. They have already done enough damage here.

[@johnmarston2918]

Not even close bud🤣

[@MikmaqMusic]

@@johnmarston2918 Our people come from an oral based society, there was no need to document, therefore there was no need for a writing system. Knowledge was passed on through stories and legends. The earliest form of documented writing system introduced to the to Mi'kmaq (Gaspesians) was from a missionary priest called Chrestian LeClercq , a form of Hieroglyphic. Search for the book called New Relation in Gespesia, to get a glimpse of the wild and free around 1675. Remember this was written from the eyes of a French priest and not the Mi'kmaq.

[@johnmarston2918]

@@MikmaqMusic so this means that the 'mi'qmak doesnt have hebrew alphabet