Wabanaki Confederacy
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The Wabanaki Confederacy is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy, and Penobs
1627 illustration by Mattheüs Merian of local people hunting using fire, canoes and bows and harvesting corn on Pesamkuk (Mount Desert Island).
Samuel de Champlain fighting on July 30, 1609, alongside the Western Abenaki in a successful battle against the Iroquois at Lake Champlain
Deportation of the Acadians, Grand-Pré.
Mi'kmaq
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The Mi'kmaq are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoun
Wabanaki Confederacy
…Wabanakia, 'Dawnland') is a North American First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal Eastern Algonquian nations: the Abenaki, Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, Passamaquoddy (Peskotomuhkati), and Penobscot. There were more tribes, along with many bands, that were once part of the Confederation…
Chief Gabriel Sylliboy – first to fight for Treaty Rights in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1929
The Holy Mary Rosary prayer in Mi'kmaq hieroglyphics by the Luxembourg missionary Christian Kauder, 1866
Miꞌkmaq Women Selling Baskets, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Mary R. McKie c. 1845
Monument to the Treaty of 1752, Shubenacadie First Nation, Nova Scotia