New Brunswick's Oxbow Site and Augustine Mound (Designated National and Provincial Historic Sites)

Mother earth provided well for the people of Metepenagiag. The early Mi'kmaq regularly feasted on a host of delicious foods such as sturgeon steaks and caviar, smoked salmon, tender roasts of moose and bear, stewed beaver, fresh green vegetables and sweet wild berries. Today our Red Bank gatherings are always highlighted by a feast of traditional foods. Spring salmon and fiddleheads are as popular now as they were 2000 years ago.

But man does not live by food alone. Always amongst the ancient Metepenagiag community were those Elders who knew the wisdom of the ancestors - what plants could be used as medicines, what ceremonies were to be conducted at special times, what certain dreams, visions or signs meant or why the sacred pipe was raised to the four directions. Passed from generation to generation through song, stories and ceremonies, this special knowledge remains. Metepenagiag continues to thrive and to practice the ways of our ancestors.