Discuss “The potency of these stories from the Micmac is still so great that even today, regardless of the broadened audience, the modern era, the language barrier, myth can still perform this teaching magic. Myth taught the People as it also teaches us, for myth both awakens us to the world of the Micmac, and connects us to it. Myth establishes us within that world, at its very center, and then we begin to learn it because we are living it”

“The potency of these stories from the Micmac is still so great that even today, regardless of the broadened audience, the modern era, the language barrier, myth can still perform this teaching magic. Myth taught the People as it also teaches us, for myth both awakens us to the world of the Micmac, and connects us to it. Myth establishes us within that world, at its very center, and then we begin to learn it because we are living it” (Whitehead 30).