by the victorious Mi’kmaq. In his Memorial University Masters thesis, Mi'kmaq elder Roger Lewis investigated how pre-contact Mi'kmaq populations had a...
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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 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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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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The Mi'kmaq Nation (formerly the Aroostook Band of Micmacs) is a US federally recognized tribe of Mi'kmaq people, based in Aroostook County, Maine. Their...
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Qalipu First Nation (redirect from Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band)
Qalipu First Nation (Pronounced: /xa.li.bu/, [xalibu], Mi'kmaq language word for 'caribou'), is a Mi’kmaq band government, created by order-in-council in 2011...
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record of 3000 years of continuous Mi’kmaq use of the site". The Oxbow "contains evidence of 3,000 years of Mi’kmaq history (from 1,000 BC to the present)...
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Culture Through Music, Song, and Dance 2005- Remembering Our Smaknisk 2006- Mi’kmaq Sante’ Mawio’mi • Traditional Mi’kmaw Leadership 2007- Pa'skite'kemk •...
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Shubenacadie Indian Residential School (category Mi'kmaq in Canada)
happen again. In terms of retaining the Mi’kmaq language, in 2014, 55% of Mi’kmaq homes use at least some Mi’kmaq language, 33% of children can speak the...
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Union of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq. Retrieved 5 November 2020. Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq website Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq, Development History...
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The following is a list of grand chiefs (Mi'kmaq) who have presided over the Grand Council (Mi'kmaq).The Mi’kmaq Grand Council is the traditional political...
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have formal authority. List of grand chiefs (Mi'kmaq) Mi'kmaq people Changing Role of Grand Council Mi’kmaq Grand Council Governing a Nation [5] Nova Scotia...
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and a group of Mi’kmaq First Nations (under the name FNC Holdings Limited Partnership) for Can$1 billion. As part of this deal, the Mi'kmaq acquired all...
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Norman Sylliboy (section Mi'kmaq Language Act)
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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Nova Scotia (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
published in 1871 as well as S. T. Rand's work from 1894 showed that some Mi’kmaq believed they had emigrated from the west, and then lived alongside the...
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Peace and Friendship Treaties (category Mi'kmaq)
Wolastoqiyik and the Chignecto Mi’kmaq on 15 August 1749, renewing the 1725 Boston Treaty without adding new terms. Most other Mi’kmaq leaders, however, refused...
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their Mi'kmaq neighbours and allies as an acknowledgement of the British claim to Acadia, putting villages at risk of attack from the Miꞌkmaq. Other...
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Algonquian Abenaki Algonquin Blackfoot Cree Innu Malecite-Passamaquoddy Miꞌkmaq Munsee Naskapi Ojibwe Ottawa Potawatomi Athabaskan Babine-Witsuwitʼen Carrier...
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oppose having a Mi’kmaq teaching their children. By 1939, she was employed at the Indian Day School, a newly opened school for Mi’kmaq children in Indian...
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Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphs (redirect from Mí'kmaq hieroglyphic writing)
purposes, in order to teach Catholic prayers, liturgy and doctrine to the Mi'kmaq. In 1978, Ives Goddard and William Fitzhugh of the Department of Anthropology...
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Jean-Baptiste Cope (category Canadian Mi'kmaq people)
in Mi’kmaq meaning ‘beaver’) was also known as Major Cope, a title he was probably given from the French military, the highest rank given to Mi’kmaq. Cope...
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resisted during the Raid on Chignecto (1696). During Queen Anne's War, Mi’kmaq and Acadians resisted during the Raid on Grand Pré, Piziquid and Chignecto...
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cases Acadians intermarried with Indigenous Peoples, in particular, the Mi'kmaq. Acadia was one of the five regions of New France. Acadia was located in...
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The 2020 Mi'kmaq lobster dispute is an ongoing lobster fishing dispute between Sipekne'katik First Nation members of the Mi'kmaq and non-Indigenous lobster...
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pp. 228–231 The Nova Scotia Museum indicates that this is a Mi’kmaq man. "This Mi'kmaq man has light hair and European features; his accoutrements are...
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and hid on the South Mountain to escape the Expulsion. Their allies, the Mi’kmaq, raced on canoe from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia to warn them what was coming...
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prisoners managed to kill their Mi’kmaq captors at the rendez-vous site near St. John. Two days later, another group of Mi’kmaq took the remaining 11 British...
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Nation. Ethnically, they are both Mi’kmaq. Each of these nations have two reserves. Of PEI's 1,405 registered Mi'kmaq (2021), only 615 live on one of the...
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Today about 3% of Nova Scotia's population is Mi’kmaq. Despite centuries of discrimination, many Mi’kmaq, including Isabelle Knockwood (author of Out of...
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Newfoundland (island) (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
/ˌnuːfənˈlænd/ NEW-fən-LAND; French: Terre-Neuve, locally [taɛ̯ʁˈnœːv]; Miꞌkmaq: Ktaqmkuk) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland...
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