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Men and young boys hunted and gathered food while the woman and young women picked and farmed plants and berries. Another job for the men was to build homes while the mothers took care of their kids.Mothers also had to produce more children to populate the country and tribe.

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They enjoyed relief from the mosquitoes and blackflies which kept away the sea winds . They enjoyed hunting and gathering.

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They have an organized government . They called their chief Saga Mor. Laws, Police, and Services . Now elected chief before chosen by tribe.

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Ceremonies connect the people spiritually and mentally. They embrace there culture.The traditional Mi’kmaq cultural ceremonies are not as widely practiced today due to assimilation into European culture.

To keep their culture alive, it is important that the Mi’kmaq citizens
continue to take part in the ceremonies and rituals of theirs ancestors.

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The Mik’maq Citizens Hunted for there food they also grew there food. The men hunted and fished while the women grew the crops. They ate many plants. Mik’maq citizens also ate caribou, moose, seals, walruses, berries, squash and ,made maple syrup tree sap.

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Mikmaw tribes were always best in the Canadian Maritime Region, although they had a VERY similar language to Abenaki and Maliseet. An interesting fact is that Mik’maq is pronounced meeg maw

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The Mikmaq people believed in a legendary hero named Glooscal.Their God was named Khimintu. To them he was their creator. The Devil was Kji .They were converted to Catholicism by the Jesuits in 1611.They Believed all thing had souls .Now they have the same beliefs as the Catholics.

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Contemporary Mik'maq artists  like Alan Syliboy have now included artistic Mik’maq traditions, like rock painting and ornate quillwork clothing.Mik'maq chants mean expressing emotion, rather than words with meanings.

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Mikmaq people would speak English and their own language which is called Mi'kmawi'simk. They were enemies with Beothuk and Iroquois. I hope you enjoy this little traditional Mik’maq song

https://youtu.be/ZNVTN0hqZA0

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The mikmaq people lived in wigwams . They had villages of wigwams. Now we have more modern homes with appliances. These wigwams were made of wood birch bark . There would be one family in each wigwam

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In what is now Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, a part of the Gaspé Peninsula and eastern New Brunswick, the Aboriginal people who greeted the first European visitors to their coasts were the Mik’maq.

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They would skin killed animals to make clothing, they would use Deer and Moose skin to make leggings, sleeves, breechclouts and moccasins.