MALICITE INDIANS IN CANADA

MALICITE INDIANS ARE CALLED "BROKEN TALKERS". .IT ALSO MEANS MICMAC OR SLOW TONGUES. THEY BELONG TO THE ABENAKI GROUP OF ALGONQUIAN STOCK. THEY ARE CLOSE TO THE PASSAMOQUODDY.

ALTHOUGH NEW BRUNSWICK COAST WAS VISITED BY ANGLOS BY 1850'S, CHAMPLAIN NOTED THEM IN HIS VOYAGE OF 1604. THEY RECEIVED THE FRENCH THE FRENCH WITH HOSPITALITY. THEY MADE THEM A FEAST AND SMOKED BEFORE DINNER. THEY HAD A DINNER OF VENISON OF GAME. THEY SANG AND DANCED ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT UNTIL MORNING. BOTH THE MALICITE AND FRENCH WERE ENEMIES OF THE ENGLISH. BY 1850 THE ENGLISH CLAIMED MUCH LAND AND THE MALICITE ONLY GOT 15 ACRES FROM ALL THEIR OREVIOUS ACREAGE! BY 1884 THEIR POPULATION WAS 770.

SOME OF THESE INDIANS LIVED IN MAINE. THEIR CHIEF IS CHOSEN BY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND IS CALLED A SAKOM. MOST PEOPLE SPEAK FRENCH TODAY BUT SOME SPEAK MALICET-PASSAMAQDODDY. THEY LIVED IN WIGWAMS MADE OUT OF WHITE BIRCH BARK. THEY ALSO USED BIRCH FOR CANOES. THEIR CLOTHING WAS FROM DEER AND MOOSE SKIN AND BEADED. THEY WERE EXPERT FISHERMEN. THEY HUNTED DEER AND MOOSE AND THE WOMEN COLLECTED FRUITS, NUTS, AND TUBERS. THEY PLANTED CORN AS WELL.

THESE NATIVES ARE NOTED FOR THEIR BEADWORK. THEY ALSO WOVE BASKETS FROM BIRCHBARK. THEY SHAPED WAMPUM. THEY SHAPED WAMPUM FROM WHITE AND PURPLE SHELLS. THEY TRADED WITH MANY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. THEY DID HAVE SOME ENEMIES. THE NATIVES AND NON-NATIVES HAVE MANY CONFLICTS ABOUT LAND RIGHTS. THE MALICITES HAD TO PAY THE GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR FISHING/HUNTING/ AND LOGGING RIGHTS. THEIR RELIGION WAS VERY COMPLEX.

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