Elder seeks to preserve Mi'kmaq culture (fwd link)

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Elder seeks to preserve Mi'kmaq culture

Published Friday July 30th, 2010
Canada

Gilbert Sewell spends one month a year teaching students Mi'kmaq language
and traditions

by jacques gallant
Times & transcript staff

FORT FOLLY FIRST NATION - They may be generally called "Mi'kmaq," but
Pabineau First Nation elder Gilbert Sewell is quick to indicate that his
people should be properly known as "Nnu," the spelling and pronunciation of
which all depend on the region you're in.

"When you are asked who you are, are you going to say Mi'kmaq?' No that's
what the settlers call us, it means ally.' Are you going to say Indian?' No,
that's what the government calls us," Sewell explained to his class of half
a dozen young people eager to learn their native language and culture, which
has slowly evaporated through the generations.

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