Moccasin Tracks
A Memoir of Mi'kmaw Life in Newfoundland

9781894725248

Paperback / softback, published 29 July 2015

208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.305 kg

"An unsentimental record of a life lived, of a Conne River Indian who respects the tradition he was born into and recognizes its vulnerability to a newer age…Jeddore's senses are finely tuned." - Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award Jury

John Nick Jeddore's richly detailed memoir begins when he was a boy in the 1920s and 1930s. His historical account makes a major contribution to our understanding of life "on the country" and in Conne River, Bay D'Espoir, as well as what it was like to be confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium and to serve overseas in the Forestry Service during WWII. John Nick recounts a lifetime of following in his ancestors' footsteps and reflects on his attempts to reconcile that heritage with a changing social and cultural world. His book will serve as an important legacy for many generations of scholars and general readers.