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

Canadian 2021 census, 9,245 people claim to speak Mi'kmaq, an Eastern Algonquian language. Once written in Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing, it is now written using...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

November 12, 2009). 2010. p. 121. ISBN 978-1604734034. "amaljugwej". Mi'gmaq/Mi'kmaq Online Talking Dictionary. 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2025. Neundorf, A....

The Mi'kmaq name for the harbour around which Halifax exists is Kjipuktuk, pronounced "che-book-took". The name means "Great Harbour" in the Mi'kmaq language...

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...

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

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...

Channel, Grand Bay and Mouse Island. The town is called "Siinalk" in the Miꞌkmaq language. Channel was settled by fishermen from the Channel Islands in the early...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Bouctouche: a corruption of the Mi'kmaq word Chebooktoosk, meaning Great Little Harbour. Caraquet: Derived from the Mi'kmaq language, meaning "junction (or meeting)...

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...

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...

1st, but were issued a 2-hour penalty for failing to complete the Mi'kmaq language challenge. Three teams checked in during this penalty time, dropping...

Canada. The population in 2001 was 854. The name derives from the Mi'kmaq language and relates to being near the water. In Scottish Gaelic it was called...

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...

Hundreds of years ago, the Mi'kmaq encampment of "Es-ed-ei-ik" was one of the major camps in southeast New Brunswick. The Mi'kmaq word Es-ed-ei-ik, which...

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...

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...

location of an annual Mi'kmaq summer coastal community prior to European settlement. Pictou was part of the Epekwitk aq Piktuk Mi'kmaq District, which included...