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The following  was written about the life  Journey of 
of Victor James Muise....Sa'ke'j .

Once this L'nu'k culture was not seen on the island of Newfoundland , from Port Aux Port , to St.John's Like other nations our identity and life have changed.

But, the Mi'Kmaq  were always there, working  unseen and underground, with the Spirit to bring our People together.

And there was some dammed  long road  and Journey ahead, , paving the road for future generations.

One man, Victor Muise , took his hand drum many years ago and went across the island to fulfill the prophecy  that someday our culture would return .

Some people said " He is a crazy man , that Victor." And no one seemed to hear him. LOL !

He worked, and traveled, and used his teachings along the way , and never gave up.

Here some 30 years later Victor Muise can be seen teaching the children , and still with his hand drum.

And now our culture   has returned , and is  becoming stronger with  time's passage.

Special thanks are owed to people , like Victor Muise,  who never gave up on our culture and our beliefs .

Wela'lio

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Mcnally Robinson Book  Sellers'  Profile:

Victor James Muise has spent the majority of his working career in the rugged outback country. 

He traveled around Canada and across Newfoundland island promoting Mi'kmaq culture and was the chief of the St. George's Indian Band for a number of years. 

He started the first drumming, singing and dancing groups in the province and is considered one of the Aboriginal community's foremost advocates for language and culture.


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I hope that we remain to be wise in order to maintain our Indian identity.


Since I’ve been a young man everyone called me Jimmy two feathers. Now I stand in society wearing two eagle feathers as a recognized Spiritual Leader.


My identity was given to me by my name James (in Mi’kmaq, Sage).

From the elders I heard a lot of stories, not how they came to Newfoundland, but how they were
born and lived for the land and off the land. I heard from a ninety two year old Mi’kmaq elder who
did not want to be recognized because he was afraid.

My grandfather had a fox ranch and while I visited him he would tell me stories of a great white moose and his trapping life. These stories were very exciting.
An elder by the name of Joe Paul gave me a pipe and told me how sacred the smoke and pipe meant to him. He would speak a language that is almost forgotten. Now I’m somewhat ashamed that I don’t know my language.


Many of the elders told me that many changes in the world are coming. It is only now I can see
what the elder people meant. The elder people told me the Indian people received hard times from
the government when they first came in contact with the Europeans.




From the exhibition, “The Mi’kmaw People of Newfoundland: A Celebration

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