Mikmaki ( English Míkmaq [ miːɡmax ]), self-name Lnu , pl. h. Lnu'g , literally "people" [1] - the Native American people living in the north-east of New England , in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and on the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec . The current population reaches about 40,000 people, of which only about 11,000 speak the Mikmak language (lnuysimk) of the Algonkin family . [2] [3] [4] Previously, the Mikmak language used the Mikmak hieroglyphic script , it is currently written in the standard Latin alphabet (unlike most languages of the Indians of Canada using the Canadian syllabic ).
| Mikmaki | |
|---|---|
| Abundance and area | |
| Total: 40,000 | |
 Quebec  Newfoundland and Labrador  New brunswick  Nova Scotia  Prince Edward Island  Maine | |
| Tongue | Mikmak , French , English |
| Religion | Christianity , animism |
| Related peoples | Algonquins |
For some time there was an alliance between Mikmak and Boeotuks , however, a random conflict (killing a Beotuksky by a Mikmak boy in a quarrel) led to a major war in which the Mikmaks defeated and drove the Beotuks from part of the land [5] .
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See also
- The Case of Donald Marshall Jr.
- Indians of Canada
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Literature
- Bock, Philip K. 1978. “Micmac.” Pp. 109-122. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15. Northeast . Bruce G. Trigger, editor. Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Davis, Stephen A. 1998. Míkmaq: Peoples of the Maritimes , Nimbus Publishing .
- Paul, Daniel N. 2000. We Were Not the Savages: A Míkmaq Perspective on the Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations , Fernwood Pub.
- Prins, Harald EL 1996. The Míkmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology), Wadsworth.
- Rita Joe, Lesley Choyce. 2005. The Míkmaq Anthology , Nimbus Publishing (CN), 2005, ISBN 1-895900-04-2
- Robinson, Angela 2005. Tán Teli-Ktlams
itasit (Ways of Believing): Míkmaw Religion in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia . Pearson Education, ISBN 0-13-177067-5 . - Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. 2004. The Old Man Told Us: Excerpts from Míkmaq History 1500-1950 , Nimbus Publishing , 2004, ISBN 0-921054-83-1
- Wicken, William C. 2002. Míkmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior , University of Toronto Press.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090304132301/http://www.cmmns.com/KekinamuekPdfs/Ch2screen.pdf