Here is a collection of questions to check your knowledge about Mi’kmaq around 1980. Note: Did you […]
Read MoreTelevision, radio, newspapers
The Mi’kmaq had access to the same means of communication (telephone, mail, and fax) and telecommunications (radio […]
Read MoreLiving far from urban centers
The Mi’kmaq who live in Gaspé live far from Quebec’s major urban centers. For example, Maria is […]
Read MoreThe Indian Act
The Mi’kmaq are subject to the Indian Act, which dates from 1876 and was originally designed to […]
Read MoreAssimilation and ancestral traditions
A testimony by Roméo Labillois “The child that I was in the mid-1940s only heard one language […]
Read MoreThe Mi’kmaq Nation
Struggles for Indigenous rights The Mi’kmaq, like other First Nations, demanded their rights in order to obtain […]
Read MoreA changed economy
Originally, the Mi’kmaq lived by hunting and fishing. At the end of the 18th century, there was […]
Read MoreA mixed culture… Mi’kmaq and Catholic
Once the Europeans arrived, many Mi’kmaq traditions were lost. However, since the 1960s, they have reunited with […]
Read MoreThe creation of the world by Glooscap
For the Mi’kmaq, the creation of the world took place a very long time ago. It was […]
Read MoreMi’kmaq – an endangered language
The Mi’kmaq speak a language that belongs to the Algonquian family, and it is in danger of […]
Read MoreLiving in Maria
Kwé! [Hi!] Mé’talwléin? [How are you?] Pilip Teluwisi [I’m Philippe]. I live in the Mi’kmaq community in […]
Read MoreYoung and old
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 […]
Read MoreThe Mi’kmaq in the Canadian Army
Approximately 7,000 Indigenous People participated in the First World War (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945). This […]
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