Mi'kmaq

The '''Mi'kmaq ( , ; singular: Mi'kmaw, also L'nuk and formerly Micmac''') are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine. The traditional national territory of the Mi'kmaq is named Mi'kma'ki (or Mi'gma'gi); it is one of the five confederated Wabanaki (or Dawnland) countries.

Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States

war

defunct writing system of Canada's Mi'kmaq First Nation

Native American and First Nations confederacy

thumb|Glooscap turning man into a cedar tree. Scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph 1884

colonial war between Britain and France

American folklorist and musicologist (1903-2004)