Petition from Indian Rear, Inverness County, to change the name of the locality to Stewartdale.
Date: 1884
Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly - Assembly petitions series Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series P volume 21 number 52
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Letter wherein Rev. G. Townsend writes of his desire to be appointed Indian Commissioner.
Date: 1851
Reference: Commissioner of Indian Affairs Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 4 number 91
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Brief description of Francis Salome and family
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 30
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Letter regarding the Mi'kmaq settlement at Bear River
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 31
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Note from Paul Toney to Judge P. Wiswall asking him to send twenty shillings by the bearer, Joseph Toney
Date: 27 December 1834
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 17 number 46
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Letter from Abbe' Sigogne to Wiswall complaining about Meuse's indifference to religion.
Date: 1831
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 979 file 8 number 21
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Statement of the individualized costs of the Mi'kmaq chapel - 1832.
Date: 1832
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 979 file 8 number 25
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Letter from Abbe' Sigogne to Wiswall stating, "According to your advice, I shall endeavor to go amongst the Indians when Judge Stewart shall be in the Quarter." No date.
Reference: Peleg Wiswall Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 979 file 8 number 28
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Field Notes Book II. Topics include: the Little People, Cliff Dwellers, legends, courtship, birds and animals, how the Mi'kmaq preserve their legends, the Martin (Glooscap's neice), Rabbit, Advocate (Harbour area), the 3 Sisters, Cape Split, petroglyphs, the medicine garden, Glooscap's grandmother, Kejimkujik and Memramcook.
Reference: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2867 number 2
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Field Notes Book IV. Topics include: folklore, Tusket/Yarmouth area, Chief Louis Luxcey, Chief Philip Paul, notes about individual Mi'kmaq in NS, Gaywahsoonoowedge.
Reference: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2867 number 4
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Field Notes: selected pages. Topics include: Mi'kmaq and Indian Gardens.
Reference: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2867 number 8
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Field Notes: select pages. Topics include: Mi'kmaq and Whycocomagh.
Reference: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2868 number 2
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Series 6 - "Micmac." Series consists of correspondence, research notes, draft chapters for Red Earth: Tales of the Micmacs, with an introduction to the Customs and Beliefs of the Micmac Indians. Series also includes articles, newspaper clippings, periodicals, ephemera, sketches and coloured slides for an address. Subjects include: Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Mi'kmaq beliefs and customs, petroglyphs ("rock drawings") and other North American First Nations groups.
Reference: Marion Robertson Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 3617
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Tracing of a petroglyph of a rectangle with triangular markings on one side
Date: 1888
Reference: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 11 B1
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Tracing of a petroglyph of two overlapping rectangles enclosing the Mi'kmaq hieroglyph for Niskam (God) with a cross on top
Date: 1888
Reference: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 11 B2
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