THE FRENCH CALLED THEM SOURGIEO, IT IS AN IMPORTANT ALGONQUIAN TRIBE. THEY LIVE IN NOVA SCOTIA, AND NEW BRUNSWICK. THEY MAY HAVE BEEN THE IST INDIANS OF NORTHEAST COAST VISITED BY EUROPEANS. IN 1497 SEBASTIAN CABOT BROUGHT 3 NATIVES TO ENGLAND. THEY HAD A FIERCE AND WARLIKE CHARACTER AND WERE HOSTILE TO THE ENGLISH THE BRITISH HAD NO SETTLEMENTS HERE. ONE MISSIONARY SAID IN 1600 HE COULD NOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUNG MEN AND GIRLS. THEY WORE ELKSKIN CLOTHES. THEY MADE SHOES AS WELL. THE MEN ONLY WEAR LOIN CLOTHES....
THEY BUILT CONICAL WIGWAMS COVERED WITH BARK AND MATTING. THEY WERE EXPERT CANOE BUILDERS AND USED THEM TO CATCH FISH. THEY DID NOT HAVE AGRICULTURE. THEY HAVE DIFFICULT DIALECTS. IN 1760 THEY HAD A 3000, BUT SOMEONE HAD ANGLO SMALLPOX. THEY HAD ABOUT 24 VILLAGES. TODAY THEY HAVE ABOUT 40,000.
THEY ORIGINALLY HAD 7 DISTRICTS. THEY FORMED A HIEROGLYPHIC FORM OF WRITING. THE MICMAC WERE ALLIANCED WITH FOUR OTHER ALGONQUIAN NATIONS. IN 1610 THEIR GRAND CHIEF WAS BAPTIZED. THEY ALLIED WITH THE FRENCH. DURING FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR THE MICMAC USED MILITARY FORCE TO RESIST THE FOUNDING OF THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN THEIR AREA. IN 1779 THEY SIGNED PEACE TREATIES WITH GREAT BRITAIN. IN 1776 THEY CONCLUDED THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY.
IN 2010 CANADA AND NOVA SCOTIA SIGNED AN HISTORIC AGREEMENT WITH THE MIKMAQ IN A PROCESS WHEREBY THEY MUST CONSULT WITH MICMAC COUNCIL. IN PRE-CONTACT TIMES THEY ESTIMATED THEIR POPULATION WAS 50 TO 100,000 FOLKS. SMALLPOX, WARS, AND ALCOHOLISM LED TO FURTHER DECLINE OF POPULATION IN THE 1600'S. THE POPULATION GREW SLIGHTLY AFTER THAT.
OCTOBER IS CELEBRATED AS MICMAC. HISTORY MONTH AND THE ENTIRE NATION CELEBRATES TREATY DAY ON OCTOBER IST. THEY FIRST CELEBRATED IN 1752 WITH PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP TREATY.
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