• The Mi'kmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United...
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    The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw; English: /ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Miꞌkmaq: [miːɡmaɣ]) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands...
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    this same field. Maillard left numerous works in the language, which continued in use among the Miꞌkmaq into the 20th century. The beginning of the Lord's...
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    Norman Sylliboy is the 11th Grand Chief or Kji-Saqmaw of the Mi'kmaq Nation. The Mi’kmaq traditional government is known as Sante' Mawio’mi or Grand Council...
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  • England. Miꞌkmaq may also refer to: The Miꞌkmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language Miꞌkmaq hieroglyphic writing, a memory aid used by the Miꞌkmaq Micmac...
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    or Mi'kmawey Mawio'mi) is the normal senior level of government for the Mi'kmaq, based in present-day Canada, until passage of the Indian Act in 1876,...
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    David (name) (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    Davy Māori: Rāwiri Marathi: दावीद (Dāvīda) Medieval English: Daw, Day Mi'kmaq: Dabit Northern Sami: Dávvet Northern Sotho: Dafid, Dafida Norwegian: David...
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  • History of ice hockey (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    stick-and-ball game played by the Mi'kmaq, and Silas Tertius Rand (in his 1894 Legends of the Micmacs) describes a Mi'kmaq ball game known as tooadijik. Rand...
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  • Animism (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    understanding of animal behavior that occurred at a powwow held by the Conne River Mi'kmaq in 1996; an eagle flew over the proceedings, circling over the central...
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    The military history of the Mi'kmaq consisted primarily of Mi'kmaq warriors (smáknisk) who participated in wars against the English (the British after...
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    Nova Scotia (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    Maine, Newfoundland and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Mi'kmaq people are part of the large Algonquian-language family and inhabited Nova Scotia at the time the...
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    Maliseet (Aroostook, Malecite, Malicite, St. John's Indians). From the Mi'kmaq word malisit meaning 'broken talker'. Their own name Wulastegniak means...
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  • line in season three of Anne with an E. She had to learn to speak the Miꞌkmaq language and obtain an understanding of their tribe, history and culture. She...
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    Wigwam (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    wiikiaami in the Miami-Illinois language wikuom in the Mi'kmaq language wicuw in the Mohegan language ȣichiȣam in the Nipmuck language wikëwam in Unami wickiup:...
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  • Two-Eyed Seeing (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    Indigenous knowledges and worldviews. Two-Eyed Seeing was introduced by Mi’kmaq Elders, Dr. Albert and Dr. Murdena Marshall from Eskasoni First Nation...
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    Gaspé Peninsula (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia (French: Gaspésie, [ɡaspezi]; Miꞌkmaq: Gespe'gewa'ki), is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence...
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  • List of place names in Canada of Indigenous origin (category Articles containing Cree-language text)
    Bouctouche: a corruption of the Mi'kmaq word Chebooktoosk, meaning Great Little Harbour. Caraquet: Derived from the Mi'kmaq language, meaning "junction (or meeting)...
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    Cape Breton Island (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Miꞌkmaq: Unamaꞌki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast...
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    Newfoundland (island) (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    /ˌnuːfənˈlænd/ NEW-fən-LAND; French: Terre-Neuve, locally [taɛ̯ʁnœːv]; Miꞌkmaq: Ktaqmkuk) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland...
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  • Blood Quantum (film) (category Mi'kmaq-language films)
    unknown. Language – The Mi’kmaq language, the Native tongue of Traylor and his family, is spoken throughout the movie. The Mi’kmaq language is spoken...
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    Acadia (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    historians suggest that the name is derived from the indigenous Canadian Miꞌkmaq language, in which Cadie means "fertile land". During much of the 17th and early...
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    between the Gaelic community and other Nova Scotia "heritage language" communities Mi'kmaq, Acadian French and African Nova Scotian. Increased ties were...
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  • Micmac (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    Micmacs or Mic Mac can refer to: Mi'kmaq people, Native people of the Southeastern Woodlands of Canada Mi'kmaq language Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Lake Micmac...
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    Arcadia (utopia) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Provinces". Revival of Mi'kmaq language has provided strong reason to believe that Verrazzano was informed by the name the Mi'kmaq gave to this place. The...
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    American mink (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ciyahkehs Menominee: sāhkih Miami-Illinois: šinkohsa Miꞌkmaq: mujpej Nisga'a: lisy̓een Nishnaabemwin: zhaangwesh Nlaka'pamuctsin: c̓əx̣lécn...
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    respectively. Basque–Icelandic pidgin Bakker, Peter (Fall–Winter 1989). ""The Language of the Coast Tribes is Half Basque": A Basque-American Indian Pidgin in...
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    Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean. Elements of Basque are preserved in the Mi'kmaq language, such as atlai ("shirt", deriving from the Basque atorra) and elege...
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    Channel, Grand Bay and Mouse Island. The town is called "Siinalk" in the Miꞌkmaq language. Channel was settled by fisher-folk from the Channel Islands in the...
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  • From Cherry English (category Mi'kmaq-language films)
    2004. Barnaby's first short film, it stars Nathaniel Arcand as Traylor, a Mi'kmaq man who is taken on a hallucinogenic journey by a mysterious woman, as...
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    Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    covered central Nova Scotia. Father Louis-Pierre Thury sought to gather the Mi'kmaq of Peninsular Nova Scotia into a single settlement around Shubenacadie...
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