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    The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Mi'kmaw or Mi'gmaw; English: /ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Miꞌkmaq: [miːɡmaɣ] , and formerly Micmac) are an Indigenous group of people...
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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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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    cases, Acadians intermarried with Indigenous Peoples, in particular, the Mi'kmaq. Some Louisiana Cajuns continue to speak Louisiana French, but most have...
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    Nova Scotia (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    Vancouver. The land that makes up what is now Nova Scotia was inhabited by the Miꞌkmaq people at the time of European colonization. In 1605, Acadia—France's first...
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    Shubenacadie Indian Residential School (category Mi'kmaq in Canada)
    punching him in the face. Many Mi’kmaq who attended the institution reported being sexually abused by staff. One Mi’kmaq person alleged that his sister...
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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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  • Mi'kmaq History Month or Mi’kmaw History Month is promoted annually in Nova Scotia as a month dedicated to building public awareness of Mi'kmaw culture...
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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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    Father Le Loutre's War (category Mi'kmaq)
    Loutre's War (1749–1755), also known as the Indian War, the Mi'kmaq War and the Anglo-Mi'kmaq War, took place between King George's War and the French and...
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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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    historians suggest that the name is derived from the indigenous Canadian Miꞌkmaq language, in which Cadie means "fertile land". During much of the 17th...
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    Newfoundland (island) (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    /ˌnuːfənˈlænd/ NEW-fən-LAND; French: Terre-Neuve, locally [taɛ̯ʁˈnœːv]; Mi'kmaq: Ktaqmkuk) is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland...
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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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    spouses according to Marriage à la façon du pays, and subsequently living in Mi'kmaq communities. Settlers also brought French wives with them to Acadia, such...
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  • a Mi'kmaq First Nation band government in the tribal district of Unama'ki, also known as Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. As of 2012, the Mi'kmaq population...
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  • Mac can refer to: Mi'kmaq people, Native people of the Southeastern Woodlands of Canada, formerly spelt Micmac Mi'kmaq language Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing...
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    one of the four Atlantic provinces. Part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq, it was colonized by the French in 1604 as part of the colony of Acadia...
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  • a Canadian first nations leader and Mi'kmaq Grand Council member since 1975, was a spiritual leader of the Mi'kmaq People. Knockwood was born in 1932....
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    Wabanaki Confederacy (category Mi'kmaq)
    five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki of St. Francis, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot. There were...
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    Mi'kma'ki (category Mi'kmaq)
    of the Mi'kmaq people, in what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and eastern Quebec, Canada. It is shared by an inter-Nation forum among Mi'kmaq First...
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  • Canada from the Mi'kmaq indigenous First Nations tribe. He is a member of the Qalipu First Nation. "First Member of Atlantic Canada's Mi'kmaq Community to...
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    Glooscap (category Mi'kmaq)
    next day was born the Mother of all the Mi'kmaq, from the plants of the Earth. Glooscap was said by the Mi'kmaq to be great in size and in powers, and...
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    Peace and Friendship Treaties (category Mi'kmaq)
    bearing the Authority of Great Britain between 1725 and 1779 with various Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), Abenaki, Penobscot, and Passamaquoddy peoples...
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