Mi'kma'ki

Mi'kma'ki
Pre-contact–1867 (as a State)
Flag of Mi'gma'gi
Flag
Seven Districts of Mi'kma'ki excluding Taqamkuk
Seven Districts of Mi'kma'ki excluding Taqamkuk
StatusConfederated districts of Wabanaki
CapitalMniku, Unama'kik
Common languagesMi'kmawi'simk
Demonym(s)Mi'kmaq
GovernmentSante'Mawio'mi / Mi'kmawey Mawio'mi
Kji Sagamaw 
• unknown-1611
Henri Membertou
• 1792-1818
Francis Peck
• 1818-1842
Michael Tooma
• 1842-1869
Frank Tooma Jr.
Sagamaw 
Putus 
History 
• Established
Pre-contact
• Contact with John Cabot[1]
1497
• Exclusion from the Treaty of Utrecht
1713
• First treaty with Great Britain after the Anglo–Wabanaki War
1725
• Indian Act, 1876
1867 (as a State)
Population
• pre-1500
35,000−75,000[2]
• 1500
4,500
• 1750
3,000
• 1900
4,000
• 2016
58,763[3]
CurrencyWabanaki Wampum
Today part ofCanada
PersonL'nu
PeopleLnu'k (Mi'kmaq)
LanguageMi'kmawi'simk
CountryMi'kma'ki
     Wabanaki

Mi'kma'ki or Mi'gma'gi is composed of the traditional and current territories, or country, of the Mi'kmaq people, in what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and eastern Quebec, Canada. It is shared by an inter-Nation forum among Mi'kmaq First Nations and is divided into seven geographical and traditional districts with Taqamkuk being separately represented as an eighth district, formerly joined with Unama'ki (Cape Breton). Mi'kma'ki and the Mi'kmaw Nation are one of the confederated entities within the Wabanaki Confederacy.

  1. ^ "Mi'kmaw Time Line". Cape Breton University. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Diss was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Harold Franklin, McGee Jr (13 August 2008). "Miꞌkmaq". Historica Canadian. Retrieved 26 September 2017.