Miꞌkmaq

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The Miꞌkmaq (English: MIG-mah, Mi'kmaq: [miːɡmaɣ]; singular: Miꞌkmaw, also Lꞌnuk 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 Miꞌkmaq is named Miꞌkmaꞌki (or Mi'gma'gi); it is one of the five confederated Wabanaki (or Dawnland) countries. As of 2023, there are 66,748 Miꞌkmaq 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 Miꞌkmawi'simk, an Eastern Algonquian language. Once written in Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing, it is now written using most letters of the Latin alphabet. The Miꞌkmaq, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), and Pasamaquoddy nations signed a series...

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