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Mi'kmaq (Mi'kma'ki)

2000 BC – present
Native nationNorth America

A seven-district maritime confederacy whose birchbark canoes ranged the Gulf of St. Lawrence coasts from Gaspe to Cape Breton and across to Newfoundland.

Endures: thirteen Nova Scotia bands plus Listuguj, Gesgapegiag and Gespeg in Quebec and the Qalipu nation in Newfoundland, bound by the 18th-century Peace and Friendship Treaties.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 5 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Mi'kmaq (Mi'kma'ki) — the shape you scrub through changes in 2000 BC · 1497 · 1610 · 1725 · 1900.

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