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    The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw; English: /ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Miꞌkmaq: [miːɡmaɣ]) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Nova Scotia (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    respectively. 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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    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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    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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    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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    Newfoundland (island) (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    /ˌnjuːfənˈlænd/ NEW-fən-LAND; French: Terre-Neuve, locally [taɛ̯ʁnœːv]; Miꞌkmaq: Ktaqmkuk) is a large island situated off the eastern coast of the North...
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  • Caribou), is a Mi’kmaq band government, created by order-in-council in 2011 pursuant to the Agreement for the Recognition of the Qalipu Mi’kmaq Band. After...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq is a Tribal Council in Nova Scotia, Canada. It was incorporated in 1986 and has its main office at Millbrook First...
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  • Micmacs or Mic Mac can refer to: Mi'kmaq people, Native people of the Southeastern Woodlands of Canada Mi'kmaq language Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing Lake Micmac...
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    one of the four Atlantic provinces. Part of the traditional lands of the Miꞌkmaq, it was colonized by the French in 1604 as part of the colony of Acadia...
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    damage. A tsunami created by the blast wiped out the community of the Mi'kmaq First Nation who had lived in the Tufts Cove area for generations. Relief...
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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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    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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    with a registered population (2022) of 4,248 members, most of whom are of Mi'kmaq ancestry. The name Listuguj, is the origin for the name of the Restigouche...
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    colonists were supported by Wabanaki Confederacy member tribes Abenaki and Mi'kmaq, and the Algonquin, Lenape, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Shawnee, and Wyandot (Huron)...
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    Q
    After /ŋ/ K'iche /qʰ/ Kiowa /kʼ/ Kurdish /q/ Maltese /ʔ/ Menominee /ʔ/ Mi'kmaq /x/ Mohegan-Pequot /kʷ/ Nuxalk /qʰ/ Portuguese /k/ Only used in ⟨qu⟩ /k/...
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    Wabanaki Confederacy (category Mi'kmaq)
    five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki of St. Francis, Mi'kmaq, Maleceet, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomahkati) and Penobscot. There were more...
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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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