Micmac

Many people believe the Micmac were the first Native Americans to have contact with Europeans. The Micmac, who originally occupied most of southeastern Canada and northern Maine, were primarily fishermen and hunters. They were also well known for their splint-ash basket making. Today there is just 1 group recognized in the U.S. - the Aroostook Band of Northern Maine with more than 700 members. Source

The name Micmac is from mi'kmaq, derivation uncertain: possible "our kin-friends" or "people of the red earth."
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The most common spelling is Micmac.The words Mi'kmaw and Mi'kmaq can be confusing to outsiders. "Q" is an ending for plural nouns in the Mi'kmaw language, just as "S" is in English. The singular form is Mi'kmaw. So the people call themselves Mi'kmaq, but talk about a Mi'kmaw man or woman.
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What are Micmac arts and crafts like?

Famed for their porcupine-quill art, they were sometimes also known as the Porcupine Indians.
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Today, most Mi'kmaq people live on the Canadian side of the border, but one band, the Aroostook, lives in northeastern Maine.
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The Micmacs didn't live in tepees. They lived in small conical buildings of wood and birchbark, called wigwams. Today, Native Americans only build a wigwam for fun or to connect with their heritage, not for shelter. Most Micmacs live in modern houses and apartment buildings, just like you.
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Women often wore a distinctive peaked (pointed) hat, and men and women would both wear beaded headbands with feathers sticking up from them. Micmacs didn't usually paint their faces, but sometimes men would paint them red if they were going into battle. Most Mi'kmaq men and women wore their hair long. The Micmacs often decorated their hats and moccasins with beads and porcupine quills. The women wore hide tunics and long skirts and the men wore breechcloths with leather pant legs tied on. In colonial times, the Micmacs adapted European costume such as blouses and jackets, decorating them with fancy beadwork.
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What was their barter system like?

With insufficient supplies from France, the Acadians (Micmac?) turned to their neighbors to the south - the English merchants. These commercial ties, based on the barter system, constituted a mutual accommodation, albeit unequal, between two trading partners. For the Acadians, it was a way of disposing of a surplus of grain, fish, and furs in exchange for manufactured products (knives, needles, and tableware) and foodstuffs from the West Indies (sugar, molasses, and rum).
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What kinds of food did they eat and how did they get it?

The Mi'kmaq were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. That means they didn't do much farming and moved around a lot as they collected food for their families. The Mikmaqs were avid fishermen and hunters, particularly of caribou and moose. They would also sometimes take to the sea to harpoon seals, walrus, and even whales. Usually it was the men who went hunting. Mi'kmaq women would gather berries and wild plants to add to their diet, harvest squash, collect herbs to use as medicine, and make maple syrup from tree sap.
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What kinds of games did they play?

In the past, Indian children had more chores and less time to play. Teenagers and adults played a stick-and-ball game that was a precursor to hockey.
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What kinds of stories do the Micmac tell?

There are lots of traditional Mi'kmaq legends and fairy tales. Storytelling is very important to the Mi'kmaq culture. One famous legend is about Glooscap (Gluskabe), the culture hero of the Wabanaki tribes, and another is about Rabbit and the Moon.
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What was their transportation like?

The Micmac Indian tribe was well-known for their birchbark canoes.Canoeing is still popular within the Mi'kmaq nation, though few people handcraft their own canoe from birch bark anymore. When they were on dry land, Mi'kmaq people usually just walked, though they did have snowshoes and toboggans to help them in the winter ('toboggan' is a Micmac word, in fact.)
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