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The Mi'kmaq
The
Mi'kmaq
(
[miːgma?]
; (also spelled
Mikmaq
,
Mi'gmaq
,
Mi'qmac
, or formerly
Micmac
) are a
First Nations
or
Native American
in the United States people, indigenous to northeastern
New England
,
Canada
's Atlantic Provinces, and the Gaspe Peninsula of
Quebec
. They are part of the
Northeastern Woodlands
. The word
Mikmaw
is an adjectival form of the plural noun for the people,
Mikmaq
.
The nation has a population of about 40,000 of whom approximately one-third still speak the
Algonquian
language
L'nui'simk
which was once written in
Mikmaq hieroglyphic writing
and is now written using most letters of the standard
Latin alphabet
.
In the Canadian provinces of
Nova Scotia
and
Newfoundland and Labrador
, October is celebrated as Mi'kmaq History Month and the entire Nation celebrates Treaty Day annually on
October 1
.
Mi'kmaq First Nation subdivisions
[
change
|
change source
]
Mi'kmaq names in the table have all been spelled according to a several orthographies. The Mi'kmaq orthographies in use are
Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs
, the orthography of
Silas Tertius Rand
, the
Pacifique
orthography, and the most recent
Smith-Francis
orthography, which has been adopted by most of the Mi'kmaq First Nation.
| Year
|
Population
|
Verification
|
| 1500
|
4,500
|
Estimation
|
| 1600
|
3,000
|
Estimation
|
| 1700
|
2,000
|
Estimation
|
| 1750
|
3,000
|
Estimation
|
| 1800
|
3,100
|
Estimation
|
| 1900
|
4,000
|
Census
|
| 1940
|
5,000
|
Census
|
| 1960
|
6,000
|
Census
|
| 1972
|
9,800
|
Census
|
| 2000
|
20,000
|
Estimation
|
- Rita Joe, Lesley Choyce. 2005.
The Mi'kmaq Anthology
, Nimbus Publishing (CN), 2005, ISBN
- Our Lives in Our Hands (Mi'kmaq basketmakers and potato diggers in northern Maine, 1986)
[1]
Archived
2008-05-11 at the
Wayback Machine
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