Description:
Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.
Brief description: Jennifer Reid is Professor of Religion at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Review Quotes:
"[Finding Kluskap] shows how the fixed nature of the sacredness of place (particularly the island Potlotek) is the axis mundi that runs through the metamorphosis of cultural transformation into Mi'kmaw Christianity. Kluskap's relationship to this place continues to provide a sacred orienting narrative that grounds not just the sacred nature of Mi'kmaw land, but also the sacred nature of legal agreements about that land. . . . [The book] will be of interest to a wide array of scholars in religious studies, Native American Studies, historiography, and anthropology."
--Kimberly Jenkins Marshall, AnthroCyBib