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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • men to Chignecto, where Mi’kmaq and Acadians opposed their landing. They killed twenty British, who in turn killed several Mi’kmaq. Le Loutre's militia eventually...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    deglaciation. The Town of Mahone Bay is part of the Mi’kma’ki territory of the Mi’kmaq who have inhabited their traditional lands for over 13,500 years. Prior...
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