Mi'kmaq Song Author:Pat Cher Membertou, the great Mi'kmaw Sagamo, lived in Atlantic Canada during Champlain?s first voyage to North America. How did he and his people live before they were influenced by European contact? Experience it with Magena (Maggie) who is captured by the Mi?kmaq and then by the Penobscot. Live with her in the Mi?kmaq village at Port Royal. Mag... more »gie is newly divorced, and alone on a lonely maritime beach. It's a night when Maggie's world is transformed into an incomprehensible adventure. When Maggie Burns first realises the truth---that she?s been transported to another time?she knows her life has changed. Now she?s about to learn if it has changed for better. Torn between her heart and her home, between her old world and the one she has found, Maggie must decide what she really wants. The wrong choice will haunt her forever. What was it like growing up as a young Mi?kmaq when the North American continent was still unexplored? Follow, Abtatuk, a young Mi?kmaq, as he grows up in the early sixteen hundreds. Woven into the story are many aspects of Mi?kmaq culture; oral history, legends, food, taboos, medicine... Most interesting are customs long lost; the courtships, the burial custom (the art of preserving the body practiced by the Mi?kmaq rivals that of the Egyptians). Enjoy the adventure while learning a piece of early North American history.« less