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Mi’kmaw
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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.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Mi'kmaq
- Ethnic group.native_name
- L'nuk
- Ethnic group.flag
- Mikmaq State Flag.svg
- Ethnic group.flag_caption
- Mi'kmaq flag
- Ethnic group.image
- Districts of Mi'kma'ki.svg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Mi'kma'ki, the Mi'kmaw country, and its districts, with the rest of the Wabanaki Confederacy labelled in light green.
- Ethnic group.population
- 66,748 registered members (2023)168,480 claimed Mi'kmaq ancestry (2016)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- (Mi'kma'ki, Wapna'ki)Canada, United States
- Ethnic group.region1
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 28,282
- Ethnic group.region2
- Nova Scotia
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 18,814
- Ethnic group.region3
- New Brunswick
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 9,025
- Ethnic group.region4
- Quebec
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 7,655
- Ethnic group.region5
- Maine
- Ethnic group.pop5
- 1,489
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- Micmac2.jpg
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- Mi'kmaq
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52 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Grand Council ''Sante' Mawio'mi''
- Mi'kmaq language
- Hieroglyphic writing
- Etymology of the word ''Mi'kmaq''
- Geography
- Districts
- Current federal and provincial relations with Mi'kmaq
- Tripartite Forum
- Marshall decision
- Dispute over rights-based inshore lobster fishery (2020–present)
- Background
- Violence
- Legal action
- Talks with DFO
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Mi'kmaq Kina' matnewey
- History
- Pre-contact period
- 17th and 18th centuries
- Colonial wars
- Covenant Chain of Peace and Friendship Treaties
- 19th century
- Royal Acadian School
- Mi'kmaq Missionary Society
- Mi'kmaq hockey sticks
- Gallery of 19th-century images
- 20th and 21st centuries
- World Wars
- Mi'kmaq of Newfoundland
- Religion, spirituality, and tradition
- Current forms of Mi'kmaq faith
- Oral traditions in Mi'kmaq culture
- Spiritual sites
- Ethnobotany
- First Nation subdivisions
- Demographics
- Commemorations
- Notable Mi'kmaq
- Academics
- Activists
- Artists
- Athletes
- Military
- Other
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- Archival primary references
- Documentary film
- External links
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.
As of 2023, there are 66,748 Mi'kmaq people in the region; this includes 25,182 members in the more recently formed Qalipu First Nation in Newfoundland. According to the Canadian 2021 census, 9,245 people claim to speak Mi'kmawi'simk, an Eastern Algonquian language. Once written in Mi'kmaw hieroglyphic writing, it is now written using most letters of the Latin alphabet.