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...

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...

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:...

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

First Nation is composed of four Mi'kmaq First Nation reserves located in central Nova Scotia. As of 2012, the Mi'kmaq population is 1,195 on-Reserve,...

between the Gaelic community and other Nova Scotia "heritage language" communities Mi'kmaq, Acadian French and African Nova Scotian. Increased ties were...

that is set in Prince Edward Island. She had to learn to speak the Miꞌkmaq language and obtain an understanding of the tribe, and their history and culture...

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...

the Mi’kmaq language. In February 2025, the Canadian federal government announced an investment of CA$7,100,000 in the revitalisation the Mi’kmaq language...