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Abstract
From 1677, the Mi’kmaq, a Native American people of the northeastern coast of America, used a logographic writing invented by French missionaries. Studies devoted to it have so far focused on its invention. This article takes the opposite of these approaches and offers a reflection on two centuries of usage of this writing. The documentary sources are first reviewed. It is then shown that Mi’kmaw writing has always been an attached writing: it was intended to transcribe a small corpus of texts from the Catholic tradition that had to be used, in the context of a specific institution, to learn by heart and recite liturgical discourses.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.