Jerry Lonecloud (July 4, 1854 – April 16, 1930)[1] served as an entertainer, ethnographer, and medicine man among the Mi'kmaq people in Nova Scotia.

These memoirs were later compiled into a book—Tracking Dr. Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper—by ethnographer and historian Ruth Holmes Whitehead at the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax in 2002.

"[4] Lonecloud was born on 4 July 1852 in Belfast, Maine, to Mi'kmaw parents originally from Nova Scotia.

After the deaths of his parents at the age of 14 in 1868, he began a two-year search to find his brother and his two sisters to return with them to Nova Scotia.

[2] The 1920s recordings with Dennis include Mi'kmaw legends, oral histories, jokes, and social customs that hadn't been published before the release of the 2002 biography.