MI’KMAQ SONG 

HISTORICAL FICTION - ATLANTIC SEABOARD - 1606

 

It began with a dream. "Come follow me." Gheeju, her Mi’kmaq grandmother, urged. Maggie didn't realize that to follow would mean plunging into uncharted wilderness beginning with the sighting of a phantom ship. 

It became a voyage of daring which taxed her endurance as well as her soul. Captivity, honor, ancient courtship rituals, and a new spirituality root her in a culture, Gheeju had held dear, but it is more than Gheeju had taught, much more. 

Maggie captured by Abtatuk , a Mi’kmaq, finds her life turned upside down as she experiences the Mi’kmaq way of life; their legends, the Little People, the neighbouring Penobscot. 

Time and perils change her relationship to Abtatuk. Will Maggie find her way back home and if she does, will she want to return?

        Membertou, the great Mi’kmaq Sagamo lived in Atlantic Canada during Champlain’s first voyage to North America. How did he and his people live before they were influenced by Europeans?

      Experience it with Magena (Maggie) who is captured by the Mi’kmaq and then by the Penobscot. Live with her in the Mi’kmaq village at Port Royal.

      What was it like growing up as a young Mi’kmaq when the North American continent was still unexplored, and the forests were wild and free. Follow, Abtatuk, a young Mi’kmaq, as he grows up in the early sixteen hundreds.

      Woven into the story are many aspects of Mi’kmaq culture; oral history, legends, food, taboos, medicine... Most interesting are customs long lost; the courtships, the burial custom (the art of preserving the body practiced by the Mi’kmaq rivals that of the Egyptians).

      Enjoy the story while learning a piece of early North American history.         

Pat Cher’s interest in her family’s story led her to read; Champlain, Lescarbot, LeClerq, Denys, the Jesuit Relations, and other early writers. She was amazed to find more information about the native people than about the early settlers. Pat felt the history should be available in an easy format for all to enjoy, thus the book, Mi’kmaq Song.

Mi’kmaq Song is available at Amazon.com both as an ebook and in paperback

For a  review copy  please contact Pat , patricia.cher@gmail.com. For sample chapters, author bio, author pix, testimonials... visit www.mikmaqsong.com .

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