Mi'kmaq Native

The ancestors of the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people have been living and established in territory now known as Nova Scotia for at least tens of thousands of years before the first known Wuropean explorers exploited the Vikings and fishermen crossed the open Atlantic ocean.

The name Mi'kmaq comes from the word Nikmaq which means "my Kin - friends". Nikmaq was the form of greeting used about 17th century. The word Mikmaq became associated with the people themselves. With the arrival of Europeans the area entered into the historic period of drastic changes. The 17th Century brought Explorers, Missionaries, Adventurers(both good and bad) etc. to the area. Not long after the arrival of the British, Wars broke out between the French (who arrived around 1604) and British who arrived later. When the French were finally defeated and its citizens in Nova Scotia Deported, the British viewed the mi'kmaq as hostiles. Fear of mi'kmaq caused a bounty to be offered for every Indian scalped or captured alive, no matter man, woman or child.

The key to Mi'kmaq life was the movement among seasons etc.

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