The Mi’kmaq had access to the same means of communication (telephone, mail, and fax) and telecommunications (radio and television) as […]

The Mi’kmaq who live in Gaspé live far from Quebec’s major urban centers.  For example, Maria is 807 km from […]

The Mi’kmaq are subject to the Indian Act, which dates from 1876 and was originally designed to assimilate Indigenous Peoples […]

A testimony by Roméo Labillois “The child that I was in the mid-1940s only heard one language at home: Mi’kmaq. […]

Struggles for Indigenous rights The Mi’kmaq, like other First Nations, demanded their rights in order to obtain greater autonomyAutonomy- AutonomyAutonomy- Autonomy refers to independence; a person or a group of people’s ability to act independently... […]

Since fishing was such an important economic activity for the Mi’kmaq, issues related to the fishing rights of salmon and […]

Originally, the Mi’kmaq lived by hunting and fishing. At the end of the 18th century, there was greater colonizationColonizationColonization occurs […]

Once the Europeans arrived, many Mi’kmaq traditions were lost. However, since the 1960s, they have reunited with their customs and […]

For the Mi’kmaq, the creation of the world took place a very long time ago. It was Glooscap, who made […]

The Mi’kmaq speak a language that belongs to the Algonquian family, and it is in danger of disappearing. Indeed, only […]

Kwé! [Hi!] Mé’talwléin? [How are you?] Pilip Teluwisi [I’m Philippe]. I live in the Mi’kmaq community in Baie des Chaleurs, […]

Youth In the 1980s, the Mi’kmaq populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.”  We say populationPopulation comes from the Latin populus, meaning “the people.”  We say population when we talk about a group... when we talk about […]

Approximately 7,000 Indigenous People participated in the First World War (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945). This number does not […]

Many thousands of years ago, small groups of nomadicA nomad is someone who lives by travelling from place to place. Nomadic thus […]