The Miꞌkmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Mi'kmaq: [miːɡmax]), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada...

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...

this same field. Maillard left numerous works in the language, which continued in use among the Mi'kmaq into the 20th century. The beginning of the Lord's...

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,...

England. Miꞌkmaq may also refer to: The Miꞌkmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language Miꞌkmaq hieroglyphic writing, a memory aid used by the Miꞌkmaq Micmac...

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...

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...

province consisting entirely of islands. The island is known in the Mi'kmaq language of its historic indigenous occupants as Abegweit or Epekwitk, roughly...

The military history of the Mi'kmaq consisted primarily of Mi'kmaq warriors (smáknisk) who participated in wars against the English (the British after...

extraction. The Mi'kmaq name for Halifax is Kjipuktuk, pronounced "che-book-took". The name means "Great Harbour" in the Mi'kmaq language. The first permanent...

nothing to do with reins. The word caribou comes through French, from the Mi'kmaq qalipu, meaning "snow shoveler", and refers to its habit of pawing through...

Maliseet (Aroostook, Malecite, Malicite, St. John's Indians). From the Mi'kmaq word malisit meaning 'broken talker'. Their own name Wulastegniak means...

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:...

Southern Lushootseed: c̓əbal̕qid Menominee: sāhkih Miami-Illinois: šinkohsa Mi'kmaq: mujpej Nisga'a: lisy̓een Nishnaabemwin: zhaangwesh Nlaka'pamuctsin: c̓əx̣lécn...

île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Mi'kmaq: Unama'ki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast...

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...

sixteen and finished school. Rita had to learn her native language again by talking with Mi’kmaq speakers (people from her same tribe). Shortly after she...

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...

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...

Two-Eyed Seeing (Mi'kmaq: Etuaptmumk) is a basis in viewing the world through both Western and Indigenous knowledges and worldviews. Two-Eyed Seeing was...

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...

Confederation. This movement formed the larger Dominion of Canada. The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people are indigenous to the Maritimes, while...

services by the Mi’kmaq Education Act of 1998 of the Government of Canada. By 2002 a curriculum had been developed to teach the Miꞌkmaq language. In 2013, 88%...

Gespe’gewa’gi, the 7th district of Mi'gma'gi, the national territory of the Mi'kmaq. The territory of Gespe’gewa’gi includes eight Mi'gmaq communities. The...

fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages. It is not found in most varieties of Modern English but existed in Old...

Anticosti has had several First Nations names: Natigôsteg, “advanced land” in Mi'kmaq; Natashquan, “where we catch bears”, in Innu. In 1535, Jacques Cartier...

only volcanic incursion in the province. The barrier islands are known in Mi'kmaq as pituamkek ("at the long sand dune"). The land has been inhabited and...

Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia (French: Gaspésie, [ɡaspezi]; Mi'kmaq: Gespe'gewa'ki), is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence...

Lenape shkakw Menominee sekāk Meskwaki-Sauk-Kickapoo, Shawnee shekâkwa ‌ Mi'kmaq apikjilu Ojibwe zhigaag / zhgaagoo Potawatomi shegak Tŝilhqot’in (Chilcotin)...

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...