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    by the victorious Mi’kmaq. In his Memorial University Masters thesis, Mi'kmaq elder, Roger Lewis, investigated how pre-contact Mi'kmaq populations had a...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • record of 3000 years of continuous Mi’kmaq use of the site". The Oxbow "contains evidence of 3,000 years of Mi’kmaq history (from 1,000 BC to the present)...
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  • Union of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq. Retrieved 5 November 2020. Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq website Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq, Development History...
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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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    Shubenacadie Indian Residential School (category Mi'kmaq in Canada)
    happen again. In terms of retaining the Mi’kmaq language, in 2014, 55% of Mi’kmaq homes use at least some Mi’kmaq language, 33% of children can speak the...
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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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    have formal authority. List of grand chiefs (Mi'kmaq) Mi'kmaq people Changing Role of Grand Council Mi’kmaq Grand Council Governing a Nation [5] Nova Scotia...
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    Nova Scotia (category Articles containing Mi'kmaq-language text)
    published in 1871 as well as S. T. Rand’s work from 1894 showed that some Mi’kmaq believed they had emigrated from the west, and then lived alongside the...
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    Peace and Friendship Treaties (category Mi'kmaq)
    Wolastoqiyik and the Chignecto Mi’kmaq on 15 August 1749, renewing the 1725 Boston Treaty without adding new terms. Most other Mi’kmaq leaders, however, refused...
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  • Mi'kmaq History Month is promoted annually in Nova Scotia as a way to build public awareness of Mi'kmaw culture and heritage. It begins on Treaty Day...
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  • oppose having a Mi’kmaq teaching their children. By 1939, she was employed at the Indian Day School, a newly opened school for Mi’kmaq children in Indian...
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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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    resisted during the Raid on Chignecto (1696). During Queen Anne's War, Mi’kmaq and Acadians resisted during the Raid on Grand Pré, Piziquid and Chignecto...
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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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    Jean-Baptiste Cope (category Canadian Mi'kmaq people)
    in Mi’kmaq meaning ‘beaver’) was also known as Major Cope, a title he was probably given from the French military, the highest rank given to Mi’kmaq. Cope...
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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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    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 Miꞌkmaq–Nova Scotia–Canada Tripartite Forum was established in 1997 to provide the Miꞌkmaq, Nova Scotia and Canada a place to resolve issues of mutual...
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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 within the Canadian province of Newfoundland...
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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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  • and hid on the South Mountain to escape the Expulsion. Their allies, the Mi’kmaq, raced on canoe from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia to warn them what was coming...
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  • Blackfoot Cheyenne Cree Fox Malecite-Passamaquoddy Massachusett Menominee Mi'kmaq Munsee Ojibwe Potawatomi Shawnee Yurok Etchemin Gros Ventre Loup Nawathinehena...
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  • men to Chignecto, where Mi’kmaq and Acadians opposed their landing. They killed twenty British, who in turn killed several Mi’kmaq. Le Loutre's militia eventually...
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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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