“The stars, our oldest relatives and teachers, link our lives to the sky and Cosmos”
-Carola Knockwood
About
Our project is about the Regeneration of Mi’kmaw Star Stories Through Storytelling. Our goals are to revitalize, document, and reclaim our Mi’kmaq Star Stories through story work research, knowledge and sharing based on our guiding themes: Dreamtime, Ceremonies, and Wampum Belts, Petroglyphs and Sacred Sites and Our Relatives and Our Language.
We acknowledge that there has been a lot of high quality work already done by others, and we want to build on that. Our Storytellers and Knowledge Keepers yearn to share understandings to help guide young people.
While the title may reflect our revitalization efforts in Mi’kmaki, we understand the interconnectiveness of Indigenous stories and knowledge of the stars and cosmos. This project is also about we/kinu and our connection to our relatives in the sixth world or to World above the sky.