Micmacn.adj.

1760 Col. Frye Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1809) 1st Ser. X. 115 Mr. Manach farther told me, they were all of one nation, and known by the name of Micmacks.

1828 J. McGregor Hist. Maritime Colonies Brit. Amer. xvi. 206 The natives, now dwindled to a few families of Mic-macs, Mountaineers and Boethics (Red Indians) are not included.

1830 W. S. Moorsom Lett. from Nova Scotia 110 The tribe to which the Indians of Nova Scotia belong is called the Micmac.

1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. vi. 174 They affiliate more closely with the Micmacs than with the New England Indians south of the Kennebeck.

1908 Catholic Encycl. III. 229/2 To the east are the Micmac, Malecite, Abnaki, Nascapi, and the Montagnais of Labrador.

1932 D. Jenness Indians of Canada xviii. 266 The Beothuk attempted to retaliate..they could not withstand the combined attacks of white and Micmac.

1972 G. V. Higgins Friends Eddie Coyle vi. 35 I get five of these Micmacs come in, real Indians, for a change.

1993 Our Schools, Our Selves May 21 I think this is true among other groups of people, not necessarily just Mi'kmaqs or Crees or Mohawks.

1995 United Church Observer Nov. 26/1 The Miqmaq named it the Petitcodiac.

1902 A. F. Chamberlain in Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 15 267 The word weequashing, or wigwassing, would seem to be derived..from wigwas, a widespread Algonkian..term for ‘birch bark’, the immediate source of the word being Passamaquoddy or Micmac.

1911 A. L. Pringle Home of Evangeline iv. 139 He taught her the Micmac, and proud she was in his absence to be catechist to the Indians.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Algonquian family..includes the languages of eastern and central Canada (Micmac, Montagnais, Cree).

1993 Our Schools, Our Selves May 16 If the dominant language among the children is Mi'kmaq.., then everyone will speak Mi'kmaq.

1767 in R. A. Skelton James Cook (1965) 17 Found here a tribe of the Mickmack Indians.

1794 H. Wansey Jrnl. 29 Apr. in Jrnl. Excursion to U.S. (1796) They were of the Mick-mack tribe, whose general character is, a dislike of all kinds of labour or exertion, except when hunting the moose deer.

1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 16 (title) Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapoosh~shoish, Skoffie, and Micmac languages.

1800 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. VI. 16 He spoke both French and English tolerably, and was well acquainted with the Skoffie, Micmac, and Mountaineer dialects.

1830 W. S. Moorsom Lett. from Nova Scotia 112 I am not aware that any one Indian claims authority over the whole Micmac tribe.

1892 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 1891 9 ii. 124 The name Red Indians..is the translation of the Micmac name for them, Maquajik, which means red men or red people.

1964 P. K. Bock in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 217 A..situation on the Micmac Indian Reserve studied by the author in 1961.

1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 363 This lexicon represents a great step forward in Micmac studies.

1997 Eastern Woods & Waters Summer 36/2 I was surprised to note that close copies of the Mi'kmaq pack basket were almost as common as canoe paddles.