Achikosis and the Weetigo
Children's book tells the story how a Cree boy escapes the cannibal spirit with the help of Wesakaychak.
Children's book tells the story how a Cree boy escapes the cannibal spirit with the help of Wesakaychak.
From "A Very Remarkable Sickness": Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670 to 1846 by Paul Hacket.
Includes brief case studies of police services in Tsuu T'ina, the Six Nations, the Akwesasne Mohawk, the Huron Wendake, the Timiskaming and the Whapmagoostui Cree.
Discusses documents found in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Archives de l'Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Public Archives of Canada, Archives de la Chancellerie de l’Archevêché de Montréal, and Les Archives du Séminaire de Québec and the periods in Riel's life which are not represented in any collections. Two appendices list documents and the repositories in which they are found. Research was conducted as part of the Riel Project and published as The Collected Papers of Louis Riel.
Story about a group of children who are pursued by a weetigo but escape with the help of Wesakaychak.
Children's storybook in Mi'kmaq and English. Contains links to audio of individual words or the entire page.
Anthropology Thesis (PhD) -- University of British Columbia, 2002.
History Theses (PhD) -- Loyola University, 1980.
Intended for use with elementary school students. Some language is outdated due year of publication (1980).
History Thesis (PhD) -- Memorial University, 2002.