Mi'kmaq CULTURE Interesting LINKS to Mi'kmaq Culture In Mi'kmaq Culture, it is a custom to be hospitable. Long ago we had RUNNERS who communicated news from one village to the next by means of running. Every village had a few runners and some of the youth would aspire to be a RUNNER someday. Hundreds or perhaps even thousands of miles of well-established network of trails were used to personally convey messages of importance. A part of our culture was embedded within the messages those runners carried for they told us of events being planned as well as past events. The Mi'kmaq People knew exactly when and where these runners would be travelling through their areas so they would prepare a meal and other items for these runners. So then the runners could just eat & run. .... and that is a true historical fact :) Culture is learned, not genetic Culture is shared, not idiosyncratic Culture is transgenerational and develops over time Culture is symbolic Culture is patterned Culture is adaptive and changes over time Culture is an attribute of groups compliments of: The Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland and the Anthropological Imagination Aboriginal Peoples and Racism ~ Cultural racism Definition of Culture from UManitoba SPCM 301: Communication Across Cultures Lecture Handouts from Sounthern Illinois University at Carbondale Facts about the Mi'kmaq Culture CultureUniversity College of Cape Breton Nova Scotia

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