On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians

Stories of Glous'gap, the embodiment of the Great Spirit, are told by the many Algonquin tribes of North America—from the Dakotas through New England, and south to Delaware. Among them is the Micmac of Maine, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces. Since the seventeenth century, anthropologists have listened to Micmac storytellers and recorded their tales. Finally, here is a book devoted entirely to Glous'gap's adventures, told to us firsthand in the traditional Micmac versions by two Micmac auth…