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KMAQ

KMAQ is an American radio station, licensed to operate at AM 1320 and FM 95.1 from Maquoketa, Iowa.


Abegweit

Abegweit First Nation, a Mi'kmaq First Nation community in Prince Edward Island.

Beothuk people

In 1910 a 75-year old Native woman named Santu Toney, who said she was the daughter of a Mi'kmaq mother and a Beothuk father, recorded a song in the Beothuk language for the American anthropologist Frank Speck.

Caraquet

The land was officially granted for the town in 1774 through the Royal Proclamation to 34 families of Acadian, Normand and Mi'kmaq origins.

Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour

The 1610 expedition also included Poutrincourt's 19-year old son Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just, and a Catholic priest who set about himself the task of baptizing the local Mi'kmaqs, including their chief Membertou.

Charles Deschamps de Boishébert et de Raffetot

In the winter of 1747, Ramezay who had marched from Quebec the previous year to support the d'Anville Expedition, ordered his subordinate Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers with two hundred and fifty Canadians and fifty Mi'Kmaq to fight against Arthur Noble who was stationed at Grand Pré.

Christian Kit Goguen

He regularly presents a Mi'kmaq version of “The Gathering Song” during his shows.

Daniel N. Paul

Many post-colonial historians, such as Thomas Naylor, applaud Paul’s efforts to render visible the harms the British conducted toward the Mi’kmaq people.

Étienne Bâtard

Étienne Bâtard (died c. 1760) was a Mi'kmaq warrior from Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.

Halifax Rules

Power recorded the rules as related to him by Byron Weston who had become the president of the Dartmouth Amateur Athletic Association and who had played in the Halifax-Dartmouth area as early as the 1860s with teams from the area including native Mi'kmaq players.

Henri Membertou

Henri Membertou (died 18 September 1611) was the sakmow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada.

History of the Acadians

A related concern was whether their Mi'kmaq neighbours might perceive this as acknowledging the British claim to Acadia rather than the Mi'kmaq.

Some Acadians escaped into the woods and lived with the Mi'kmaq; some bands of partisans fought the British, including a group led by Joseph Broussard, known as "Beausoleil", along the Peticodiac River of New Brunswick.

Joseph-Nicolas Gautier

In May 1745, he assisted Paul Marin de la Malgue who led 200 troops and hundreds of Mi'kmaq joined a siege against Annapolis Royal.

Lennox Island

Lennox Island First Nation, a part of the Mi'kmaq Nation and located on Lennox Island

Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic

During the Siege of Annapolis Royal the following year, the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet took prisoner William Pote and some of Gorham's (Mohawk) Rangers.

Membertou

Henri Membertou, a sakamow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Peregrine Hopson

Hobston is perhaps best known for signing the Peace Treaty of 1752 with Mi'kmaq chief Jean-Baptiste Cope which is celebrated (along with other treaties) every year by Nova Scotians on Treaty Day.

Sagittaria latifolia

The name of Shubenacadie, a community located in central Nova Scotia, Canada, means "abounding in ground nuts" (i.e., broadleaf arrowhead) in the Mi'kmaq language.

Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec

During Father Rale's War, on September 10, 1722, in conjunction with Father Rale at Norridgewock, 400 or 500 St. Francis (Odanak, Quebec) and Mi'kmaq Indians prepared their attack on Arrowsic, Maine.

William Cormack

Cormack departed with three native guides, a Canadian Abenaki, a Labrador Montagnais and a young Mi'kmaq, to explore the area around the Exploits River and Red Indian Lake, but found it deserted.


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