{"id":4058,"date":"2022-12-21T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2022-12-21T21:57:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:57:42","slug":"celebrating-winter-ask-an-elder-what-do-you-call-the-winter-months-in-the-mikmaw-language-21dec-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Winter: \u201cAsk an Elder: What do you call the winter months in the Mi\u2019kmaw language?\u201d 21Dec 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/indigenous\/bernie-francis-mi-kmaw-language-words-winter-1.4966323?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-742\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-21-at-9.31.14-PM-300x173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>This CBC item of a few years ago is a wonderful and &#8220;seasonally appropriate&#8221; introduction to the Mik&#8217;maq language.<\/p>\n<p>To delve\u00a0 further into this truly incredible language, as a settler descendant I highly recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki\">The Language of this Land, Mi&#8217;kma&#8217;ki<\/a> by Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis (2012 and 2018):<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The ancient landscapes of Eastern North America are reflected in the language and cultural expressions of its Indigenous peoples, the Mi\u2019kmaq. The rhythms, sounds and patterns of their language are inextricably bound with the seasonal cycles of the animals, plants, winds, skies, waterways and trade routes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Language of this Land, Mi\u2019kma\u2019ki\u00a0is an exploration of Mi\u2019kmaw world view as expressed in language, legends, song and dance. Using imagery as codes, these include not only place names and geologic history, but act as maps of the landscape. Sable and Francis illustrate the fluid nature of reality inherent in its expression \u2013 its embodiment in networks of relationships with the landscape integral to the cultural psyche and spirituality of the Mi\u2019kmaq.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Language has sustained the Mi\u2019kmaq to the present day, a product of a lineage of Elders who spoke it, who danced the dances and walked this land, Mi\u2019kma\u2019ki, carrying its traditions forward despite centuries of cultural disruption, discrimination and degradation. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.ca\/books\/the-language-of-this-land-mikmaki\/#\">Atlantic Books<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; <em>david p<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This CBC item of a few years ago is a wonderful and &#8220;seasonally appropriate&#8221; introduction to the Mik&#8217;maq language. To delve\u00a0 further into this truly incredible language, as a settler descendant I highly recommend The Language of this Land, Mi&#8217;kma&#8217;ki &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=4058\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikmaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}