African Nova Scotian - Mi'kmaw Relations Ojibwe Language The story recounts in humourous

The story recounts in humourous detail how the language barrier and the many problems involved in communicating ideas across cultures can effect a simple consultation meeting

And so the children say they have kept their promise and return home

June Helm is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Iowa

Michael McKenzie

African Nova Scotian - Mi'kmaw Relations Ojibwe Language The story recounts in humourousThe Indigenous people of Nova Scotia, the Mi'kmaq, have been dispossessed of their lands and, since the early 1820s, confined to reserves. African Nova Scotians have also been dispossessed of lands originally granted to them by white colonial governments and settled in communities with names like Africville, Preston or Birchtown. Yet the story of Africville, and other stories of dispossession, argues author Paula C. Madden, cannot be told and