Mi’kmaw Theses Online

Links to Mi’kmaw & Aboriginal Theses Available On-Line

Archaeology | Architecture | Art | Centralization | Economic Development | Education | Environmental Aspects | Ethnography | Grand Council | Health | Identity/Band Membership | Justice | Kluskap/Legends | Language and Languages | Literature | Marshall Decision | Media | Music | Plants | Political Resistance | Religious Life and Customs/Worldview| Research | Residential School | TRC | Treaties | Women | Youth | 1500s-1900s |

Archaeology

• After 12,000 Years of Yesterdays-Where will Debert Be After 12 Years of Tomorrows? Impact of Mi’kmawey Debert on Culture, Economy, and Environment of the Mi’kmaq
  M.A. Thesis by Elaine Jeffery
• Mu Awsami Keji’kewe’k L’nuk Mi’kmak’i: New Perspectives on the Transitional Archaic Period in Southwestern Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by John Andrew Campbell
• Past Nature: Public Accounts of Nova Scotia’s Landscape 1600-1900
  M.A. Thesis by Heather L. Mac Leod
• The Petroglyphs of Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia: A Fresh Perspective on Their Physical and Cultural Contexts
  M.A. Thesis by Beverly Cave
• Prehistoric Settlement & Subsistence Patterns at Gaspereau Lake, Kings County, Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by A. Dawn Laybolt
• A River Runs Through It: An Archaeological Survey of the Upper Mersey River and Allains River in Southwest Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Benjamin Pentz

Architecture

• The Architecture of Learning: Spaces for Architectural Learning Within the Mi’kmaq Context
  M.Arch. by Brett Ferguson
• Architecture as Weaving: How Can Architecture Contribute to the Learning of Mi’kmaq Knowledge at Dalhousie University?
  M. Arch. by Duncan Patterson
• Searching for the Spirit of Place
  M.Urban & Rural Planning Thesis by Carla Bing-Wo

Art

• Ktaqamkuk: Remembering and Re-Imagining Our Relations
  MFA Thesis by Jordan Bennett

Centralization

• The Effect of Centralization on the Social & Political Systems of the Mainland Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq: Case Studies – Millbrook 1916 & Indian Brook 1914
  M.A. Thesis by Anita Tobin
• Indian Affairs and the Nova Scotia Centralization Policy
  MA Thesis by Lisa Lynne Patterson
• Koqqwaja’ltimk: Mi’kmaq Legal Consciousness
  Ph.D. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• Revisiting the Proverbial Tin Cup: A Study of Political Resistance of the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia 1900-1969
  M.A. Thesis by Sarah Brennan

Economic Development

• Economic Development Strategies and the Micmac of Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Linda Kuhn Boudreau
• Finding Balance: Determining the Relationship between “Economic Development”, Traditional Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in the Context of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq
  M.A. Thesis by Zabrina Whitman
• Tourist and Host Perspectives on Mi’kmaw Cultural Tourism in Nova Scotia
  M.E.S. Thesis by Mary-Frances Lynch

Education

• Another Look in the Mirror: Research into the Foundations for Developing an Alternative Science Curriculum for Mi’kmaw Children
  M.A. Thesis by Gertrude (Trudy) Sable
• Circle as Pedagogy: Aboriginal Tradition in a University Classroom
  Ph.D. Thesis by Jean Graveline
• A Culturally Relevant Education for Aboriginal Youth: Is There Room for a Middle Ground, Accommodating Traditional Knowledge & Mainstream Education?
  M.A. Thesis by Stephen J. Augustine
• Emerging Identities: A Proposed Model for an Interactive Science Curriculum for First Nations Students
  Ph.D. Thesis by Trudy Sable
• Ketmite’tmney, Remember Who You Are: the Educational Histories of Three Generations of Mi’kmaq Women
  Ph.D Thesis by Roberta Clark
• Learning Strategies of Mi’kmaq (Aboriginal) Students
  M.A. Thesis by Tammy Caplin
• Out of the Ruts of Nova Scotia Education: Mi’kmaw Doors of Education Emerge
  Ph.D. Thesis by Barbara Johnson
• Problematizing Social Studies Curricula in Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Pamela Rogers
• Providing a Lens for First Nations Youth to View Hope in Education
  Ph.D. Thesis by Michael Topshee
• That’s Not My History! Examining the Role of Personal Counter-Narratives in Decolonizing Canadian History for Mi’kmaw Students
  Ph.D. Thesis by Jennifer R. Tinkham
• They Think They Know Me But They Really Don’t Know Me: Beginning to Explore the Experiences of Mi’kmaq Students at a Provincial Intermediate School
  M.Ed. Thesis by Margaret Cain
• Transforming Mathematics Education for Mi’kmaw Students through Mawikinutimatimk
  Ph.D. Thesis by Lisa Lunney Borden
• Trickster Chases the Tail of Education
  Ph.D Thesis by Sylvia Moore

Environmental Aspects

• Change over Time in the Abundance and Distribution of Black Ash in Nova Scotia: Effects on Mi’kmaq Traditional Use and Recommendations for the Best Germination Techniques for Province Wide Replanting Programs
  M.Sc. Thesis by Sara Hill-Forde
• Contemporary Mi’kmaq Relationships between Humans and Animals: A Case Study of the Bear River First Nation Reserve in Nova Scotia
  MES Thesis by Lacia Kinnear
• Finding Balance: Determining the Relationship between “Economic Development”, Traditional Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in the Context of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq
  M.A. Thesis by Zabrina Whitman
• `Frack’turing Canadian Settler Narratives: The Elsipogtog Shale Gas Protests and Indigenous Women’s Resistance
  M.A. Thesis by Alyse Stuart
• Towards a Broad-Based Precautionary Principle in Law & Policy: A Functional Role for Indigenous Knowledge Systems (TEK) Within Decision-Making Structures
  M. of Laws Thesis by Fran Trippett

Ethnography

• Beyond Blood: Rethinking Aboriginal Identity and Belonging
  D.S.L. Thesis by Pamela Palmater
• Displaced Mixed-Blood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Metis Identity in Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Katie K. Mac Leod
• Encounters with Tall Sails and Tall Tales: Mi’kmaq Society 1500-1760
  Ph.D. Thesis by William Wicken
• The Historical Ethnography of the Micmac of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (in 10 parts)
  Ph.D. Thesis by Bernard Hoffman
• Resistance and Reinscription: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Culture in Newfoundland: A Grounded Theory Discursive Analysis of Oppression and Resistance
  Ph.D. Thesis by Charles William James Butler

Grand Council

• Encounters with Tall Sails and Tall Tales: Mi’kmaq Society 1500-1760
  Ph.D. Thesis by William Wicken
• Koqqwaja’ltimk: Mi’kmaq Legal Consciousness
  Ph.D. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• Mi’kmawey Mawio’mi: Changing Roles of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council from the Early Seventeenth Century to the Present
  M.A. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• Revisiting the Proverbial Tin Cup: A Study of Political Resistance of the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia 1900-1969
  M.A. Thesis by Sarah Brennan
• United They Stood, Divided They Didn’t Fall: Culture & Politics in Mi’kmaq Nova Scotia 1969-1988
  M.A. Thesis by Michelle Coffin

Health

• An Analysis of Social Support and the Health of the On-Reserve Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Population
  M.Sc. Thesis by Vanessa Perry
• Childbirth Experiences of Women from One Mi’kmaq Community in Nova Scotia
  M.of Nursing Thesis by JoAnne Whitty-Rogers
• Engaging Mi’kmaq Communities in Asthma Research: A Community Driven Assessment of the Needs, Challenges, & Opportunities Surrounding Asthma Support in Unama’ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia
  MES Thesis by Robert Watson
• Exploring How Current Federal Provincial and First Nations Government Policies Support and Promote Healthy Aging Among Older Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Christie Stillwell
• Food & Health Perceptions & Practices of Mi’kmaq Children & Youth in PEI
  M.A. Thesis by Roberta Larsen
• Help-Seeking Behaviours of Adults from Sexual and Gender Minorities Living with Psychological Distress
  M.Sc. Thesis by Jad Sinno
• An Indigenist Perspective on the Health/Wellbeing and the Masculinities of Mi’kmaq Men Tet-Pagi-Tel-Sit: Perceiving Himself To Be a Strong Balanced Spiritual Man
  Ph.D. Thesis by Gracie Getty
• Mental Health of Rural Mi’kmaw Youth: Community Based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Adele Vukic
  
• A Preliminary Case Study of Perceptions of Access to Ethnomedicine in the Environment in the Mi’kmaq Community of Indian Brook
  M.A. Thesis by Joanne Pereira
• Relationships between Childhood Exposure to Violence, Posttraumatic Stress, Resilience, and Alcohol Misuse in Mi’kmaq Adolescents
  Ph.D. Thesis by Mark Zahradnik
• Two Pathways to Health: Exploring Potential Relationships between Traditional Mi’kmaw Medicine and Western Biomedicine
  M.A. Thesis by Mike Petrou

Identity/Band Membership

• Beyond Blood: Rethinking Aboriginal Identity and Belonging
  D.S.L. Thesis by Pamela Palmater
• Displaced Mixed-Blood: An Ethnographic Exploration of Metis Identity in Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Katie K. Mac Leod
• In the Path of Our Ancestors: The Aboriginal Right to Cross the Canada-United States Border
  LLM Thesis by Pamela Palmater
• A Landscape of Leftovers
  Ph.D. Thesis by Anne-Christine Hornborg
• Medicine Dream: Contemporary Native Music and Issues of Identity
  M.A. Thesis by Janice Tulk
• A Neutral Framework for Modelling & Analysing Aboriginal Land Tenure Systems – A Study of the Mi’kmaq of Mainland Nova Scotia
  Ph.D. Thesis by Mele Estella Rakai
• `Our Strength Is Ourselves’: Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization among the Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland
  Ph.D. Thesis by Janice Tulk
• Puktewei: Learning from Fire in Mi’kma’ki (Mi’kmaq Territory)
  M.E.S. Thesis by Shalon Joudry
• `Real’ Indians and Others: Mixed Race Urban Native People, The Indian Act, and the Rebuilding of Indian Nations
  Ph.D. Thesis by Bonita Lawrence
• Recognizing Missing Branches on the Tree: A Preliminary Social Analysis of Historically-Oppressed Ethnic Minorities in Nova Scotia through Genealogy
  M.A. Thesis by Renee Richardson
• Spinning Violence: Examining Competing Discourses of State Force and Indigenous Identity in Mi’kmaw’ki, 2013
  Ph.D. Thesis by Derek Antoine

Justice

• Aboriginal Injustice, A Canadian Responsibility: An Algonquian Perspective of Canada’s Criminal Justice System
  M.A. Thesis by Kate Singer
• Coming Full Circle Redefining `Effectiveness’ for Aboriginal Justice
  M.A. Thesis by Gerald D. Gloade
• An Evaluation of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) through the Lens of Restorative Justice and the Theory of Recognition Ph.D. Thesis by Konstantin Petoukhov
• Koqqwaja’ltimk: Mi’kmaq Legal Consciousness
  Ph.D. Thesis by Jane McMillan

Kluskap/Legends

• Another Look in the Mirror: Research into the Foundations for Developing an Alternative Science Curriculum for Mi’kmaw Children
  M.A. Thesis by Gertrude (Trudy) Sable
• A Landscape of Leftovers
  Ph.D. Thesis by Anne-Christine Hornborg

Language and Languages

• Investigating the Restoration of the Mi’kmaq Language and Culture on the First Nations Reserve of Miawpukek
  M.Ed. Thesis by Roderick Jeddore
• Mi’kmaq (in Mi’kmaw only)
  M.A. Thesis by Eleanor V. Johnson
• Phonological Development in Mi’kmaq & the Phonological Characteristics of Child Diverted Vocabulary in Mi’kmaq
  M.Sc. Thesis by Angela Barkhouse-Clow
• Speaker’s Experience: A Study of Mi’kmaq Modality
  Ph.D. Thesis by Stephanie Inglis

Literature

• Forward Motion: Cultural Memory and Continuity in Mi’gmaq Literature
  M.A. Thesis by Blair Alicia Metallic
• Native Writers Resisting Colonizing Practices in Canadian Historiography & Literature
  Ph.D. Thesis by Emma La Roque
• The White of the Wampum: Possibilities for Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationships in Canadian Settler Narratives (circa 2012) and Indigenous Storywork
  Ph.D. Thesis by Steven Mac Leod

Marshall Decision

• Contested Place: Religion & Values in the Dispute, Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj, New Brunswick
  Ph.D. Thesis by Sarah J. King
• From Marshall to Mayhem: Mi’kmaq E’pijig/Women of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church – Resistance and Change for Tomorrow
  M.A. Thesis by Danielle Soucy
• The Impact of the Marshall Decision on Fisheries Policy in Atlantic Canada
  M.M.S. Thesis by Chantal March
• In the Same Boat? Exploring Treaty Rights, Resource Privatization, Community Resistance, and Mi’kmaq/Non-Native Solidarity in Bear River First Nation through Video-based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Stiegman
• Marshalling Resources: Crisis Citizen Engagement and the Marshall Decisions
  M.A. Thesis by Frank Gale
• This Is the News: Donald Marshall, the Supreme Court, and Troubles on the Water at Burnt Church
  M.A. Thesis by Paul Fitzgerald

Media

• The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network: An Institutional Model of Empowerment
  M.A. Thesis by Karen Richards
• This Is the News: Donald Marshall, the Supreme Court, and Troubles on the Water at Burnt Church
  M.A. Thesis by Paul Fitzgerald

Music

• Medicine Dream: Contemporary Native Music and Issues of Identity
  M.A. Thesis by Janice Tulk
• `Our Strength Is Ourselves’: Identity, Status, and Cultural Revitalization among the Mi’kmaq of Newfoundland
  Ph.D. Thesis by Janice Tulk

Plants

• The Process of Mi’kmaq Community-Based Development: A Case Study of the Bear River Mi’kmaq Npisunewawti’j (Medicine Trail) Project
  M.E.S. Thesis by Lindiwe Mac Donald
• Two Pathways to Health: Exploring Potential Relationships between Traditional Mi’kmaw Medicine and Western Biomedicine
  M.A. Thesis by Mike Petrou

Political Resistance

• Decolonizing Mi’kmaw Memory of Treaty: L’sitkuk’s Learning with Allies in Struggle for Food and Lifeways
  Ph.D. Thesis by Sherry Mae Pictou
• `Frack’turing Canadian Settler Narratives: The Elsipogtog Shale Gas Protests and Indigenous Women’s Resistance
  M.A. Thesis by Alyse Stuart
• From Marshall to Mayhem: Mi’kmaq E’pijig/Women of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church – Resistance and Change for Tomorrow
  M.A. Thesis by Danielle Soucy
• In the Same Boat? Exploring Treaty Rights, Resource Privatization, Community Resistance, and Mi’kmaq/Non-Native Solidarity in Bear River First Nation through Video-based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Stiegman
• Marshalling Resources: Crisis Citizen Engagement and the Marshall Decisions
  M.A. Thesis by Frank Gale
• The Maximum, The Minimum, or Something in Between: the Mi’kmaq and Federal Electoral Legislation, 1899-1951
  Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Walls
• Resistance and Reinscription: Revitalizing Mi’kmaq Culture in Newfoundland: A Grounded Theory Discursive Analysis of Oppression and Resistance
  Ph.D. Thesis by Charles William James Butler
• Revisiting the Proverbial Tin Cup: A Study of Political Resistance of the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia 1900-1969
  M.A. Thesis by Sarah Brennan
• Spinning Violence: Examining Competing Discourses of State Force and Indigenous Identity in Mi’kmaw’ki, 2013
  Ph.D. Thesis by Derek Antoine
• United They Stood, Divided They Didn’t Fall: Culture & Politics in Mi’kmaq Nova Scotia 1969-1988
  M.A. Thesis by Michelle Coffin
• Whose Face Anyway?: Images of First Nations Protest & Resistance in Kahnawake & Kanesatake, Kanien’kehaka Territory 1990, a Study in the Social Construction of Voice & Image
  M.A. Thesis by George Doyle-Bedwell

Religious Life and Customs/Worldview

• Another Look in the Mirror: Research into the Foundations for Developing an Alternative Science Curriculum for Mi’kmaw Children
  M.A. Thesis by Gertrude (Trudy) Sable
• Contemporary Mi’kmaq Relationships between Humans and Animals: A Case Study of the Bear River First Nation Reserve in Nova Scotia
  MES Thesis by Lacia Kinnear
• Emerging Identities: A Proposed Model for an Interactive Science Curriculum for First Nations Students
  Ph.D. Thesis by Trudy Sable
• The Historical Ethnography of the Micmac of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (in 10 parts)
  Ph.D. Thesis by Bernard Hoffman
• A Landscape of Leftovers
  Ph.D. Thesis by Anne-Christine Hornborg
• Puktewei: Learning from Fire in Mi’kma’ki (Mi’kmaq Territory)
  M.E.S. Thesis by Shalon Joudry
• Ta’n Teli-ktlamsilasimk (Ways of Believing) – Mi’kmaw Religion in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia
  Ph.D. Thesis by Angela Robinson
• Towards a Broad-Based Precautionary Principle in Law & Policy: A Functional Role for Indigenous Knowledge Systems (TEK) Within Decision-Making Structures
  M. of Laws Thesis by Fran Trippett
• Traditions in a Colonized World: Two Realities of a First Nation
  Ph.D. Thesis by Eleanor Alwyn

Research

• Contemporary Mi’kmaq Relationships between Humans and Animals: A Case Study of the Bear River First Nation Reserve in Nova Scotia
  MES Thesis by Lacia Kinnear
• Finding Balance: Determining the Relationship between “Economic Development”, Traditional Knowledge and Natural Resource Management in the Context of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq
  M.A. Thesis by Zabrina Whitman
• Implementing Chapter 9 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement on the Ethics of Research Involving Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: How’s That Going?
  M.A. Thesis by Carla Moore
• In the Same Boat? Exploring Treaty Rights, Resource Privatization, Community Resistance, and Mi’kmaq/Non-Native Solidarity in Bear River First Nation through Video-based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Stiegman
• Mental Health of Rural Mi’kmaw Youth: Community Based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Adele Vukic
• Towards Moral & Ethical Research in Collaboration with First Nation Communities
  M.N.R.M Thesis by Earl Stevenson
• “We Had Something Good and Sacred Here”: ReStorying A’se’k with Pictou Landing First Nation
  M.Es. Thesis by Ella Bennett

Residential School

• Researching the Devils: A Study of Brokerage at the Indian Residential School, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
  Ph.D. Thesis by Marilyn Thomson-Millward
• Teach Your Children Well: Curriculum & Pedagogy at the Shubenacadie Residential School, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, 1951-1967
  M.A. Thesis by Briar Dawn Ransberry

TRC

• An Evaluation of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) through the Lens of Restorative Justice and the Theory of Recognition Ph.D. Thesis by Konstantin Petoukhov

Treaties

• Decolonizing Mi’kmaw Memory of Treaty: L’sitkuk’s Learning with Allies in Struggle for Food and Lifeways
  Ph.D. Thesis by Sherry Mae Pictou
• In the Same Boat? Exploring Treaty Rights, Resource Privatization, Community Resistance, and Mi’kmaq/Non-Native Solidarity in Bear River First Nation through Video-based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Martha Stiegman
• The Mi’kmaq Nation & the Embodiment of Political Ideologies: Ni’kmaq, Protocol & Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth Century
  M.A. Thesis by Rosalie Francis
• Mi’kmawey Mawio’mi: Changing Roles of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council from the Early Seventeenth Century to the Present
  M.A. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• Solemn Commitments: Fiduciary Obligations, Treaty Relationship, & the Foundational Principles of Crown-Native Relations in Canada
  S.J.D. Thesis by Leonard Rotman
• Solemn Promises: Treaty Rights in the Shadow of Sparrow
  LLM Thesis by Stephen Mc Gilligan
• Strength Through Sharing: Mi’kmaq Political Thought to 1761
  Ph.D. Thesis by David Leech
• They Promised to Leave Us Some of Our Land: Aboriginal Title in Canada’s Maritime Provinces
  MLB. Thesis by Robert Colin Hamilton
• Two Conquests: Aboriginal Experiences of the Fall of New France and Acadia
  Ph.D Thesis by Thomas Peace

Women

• Analyze If You Wish, But Listen: Aboriginal Women’s Lifestorytelling in Canada & Australia & the Politics of Gender, Nation, Aboriginality & Anti-Racism
  Ph.D Thesis by Gail Kelly
• Bill C-31 – The Experiences of ‘Indian’ Women Who ‘Married Out’
  M.A. Thesis by Fern Marie Paul
• Childbirth Experiences of Women from One Mi’kmaq Community in Nova Scotia
  M.of Nursing Thesis by JoAnne Whitty-Rogers
• Disavowing Colonialism: The Canadian Federal Government on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
  M.A. Thesis by Kim Wakefield
• `Frack’turing Canadian Settler Narratives: The Elsipogtog Shale Gas Protests and Indigenous Women’s Resistance
  M.A. Thesis by Alyse Stuart
• From Marshall to Mayhem: Mi’kmaq E’pijig/Women of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church – Resistance and Change for Tomorrow
  M.A. Thesis by Danielle Soucy
• Ketmite’tmney, Remember Who You Are: the Educational Histories of Three Generations of Mi’kmaq Women
  Ph.D Thesis by Roberta Clark

Youth

• Food & Health Perceptions & Practices of Mi’kmaq Children & Youth in PEI
  M.A. Thesis by Roberta Larsen
• Learning Strategies of Mi’kmaq (Aboriginal) Students
  M.A. Thesis by Tammy Caplin
• Mental Health of Rural Mi’kmaw Youth: Community Based Participatory Research
  Ph.D. Thesis by Adele Vukic
  
• Mi’kmaq & Maliseet Tom Longboat Award Recipients’ Experiences in Sport in the Maritimes
  BSSc.(Hons.) Thesis by Vanessa Lodge
• Phonological Development in Mi’kmaq & the Phonological Characteristics of Child Diverted Vocabulary in Mi’kmaq
  M.Sc. Thesis by Angela Barkhouse-Clow
• Problematizing Social Studies Curricula in Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Pamela Rogers
• Providing a Lens for First Nations Youth to View Hope in Education
  Ph.D. Thesis by Michael Topshee
• Relationships between Childhood Exposure to Violence, Posttraumatic Stress, Resilience, and Alcohol Misuse in Mi’kmaq Adolescents
  Ph.D. Thesis by Mark Zahradnik
• That’s Not My History! Examining the Role of Personal Counter-Narratives in Decolonizing Canadian History for Mi’kmaw Students
  Ph.D. Thesis by Jennifer R. Tinkham
• They Think They Know Me But They Really Don’t Know Me: Beginning to Explore the Experiences of Mi’kmaq Students at a Provincial Intermediate School
  M.Ed. Thesis by Margaret Cain
• Transracial Adoption: The Attitudes of Black, White, & Mi’kmaw Social Workers
  M.A. Thesis by Kathleen Lumsden

 

1500s-1900s

• Anthropological Advocacy?: Frank Speck and the Mapping of Aboriginal Territoriality in Eastern Canada 1900-1950
  Ph.D. Thesis by Siomonn Pulla
• A Comparative Study of the Bark, Bone, Wood and Hide Items Made by the Historic Micmac, Montagnais-Nascapi and Beothuk Indians
  M.A. Thesis by Janet Chute
• Encounters with Tall Sails and Tall Tales: Mi’kmaq Society 1500-1760
  Ph.D. Thesis by William Wicken
• From Swords to Ploughshares: The Context for Highland Soldier Settlement in Nova Scotia, 1710-1775
  M.A. Thesis by Donald Brian Smith
• The Historical Ethnography of the Micmac of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (in 10 parts)
  Ph.D. Thesis by Bernard Hoffman
• Mi’kmaq (in Mi’kmaw only)
  M.A. Thesis by Eleanor V. Johnson
• The Mi’kmaq Nation & the Embodiment of Political Ideologies: Ni’kmaq, Protocol & Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth Century
  M.A. Thesis by Rosalie Francis
• Mi’kmawey Mawio’mi: Changing Roles of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council from the Early Seventeenth Century to the Present
  M.A. Thesis by Jane McMillan
• `Our Nation is like a withering leaf on a summer’s day’: The Mi’kmaq and British Agricultural Policies for Colonial Nova Scotia
  M.A. Thesis by Courtney Mrazek
• Past Nature: Public Accounts of Nova Scotia’s Landscape 1600-1900
  M.A. Thesis by Heather L. Mac Leod
• The Petroglyphs of Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia: A Fresh Perspective on Their Physical and Cultural Contexts
  M.A. Thesis by Beverly Cave
• Pokemouche Mi’kmaq and the Colonial Regimes
  M.A. Thesis by Mark Landry
• Strength Through Sharing: Mi’kmaq Political Thought to 1761
  Ph.D. Thesis by David Leech
• They Promised to Leave Us Some of Our Land: Aboriginal Title in Canada’s Maritime Provinces
  MLB. Thesis by Robert Colin Hamilton
• “those two insignificant islands”: Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and Social and Cultural Continuity in Northeastern North America, 1763-1793
  M.A. Thesis by Brandon Morris
• Two Conquests: Aboriginal Experiences of the Fall of New France and Acadia
  Ph.D Thesis by Thomas Peace
• Warrior Traders: A Comparative Study of Early Seventeenth-Century French and English North American Trade and Colonization
  M.A. Thesis by Kilroy Abney

 

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