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MICOMA — MIGICHIHILINIOU 



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extent by the chiefs; they were expert 

 canoemen, and drew mucli of their sub- 

 sistence from the waters. Cultivation of 

 the soil was very limited, if practised at 

 all by them, when first encountered l)y 

 the whites. Biard says they did not till 

 the soil in his day. 



According to Rand (Micmac First Read- 

 ing Book, 1875), they divided their coun- 

 try, which they called Megumage, into 7 

 districts, the head-chief living in the 

 Cape Breton district. The other six were 

 Pictou, Memramcook, Restigouche, Es- 

 kegawaage, Shubenacadie, and Annapo- 

 lis. The first three of these formed a 

 group known as Sigunikt; the other three 

 formed another group known as Kes- 

 poogwit. In 17tiOthe Micmac bandsor vil- 

 lages were given as Le Have, JNIiramichi, 

 Tabogimkik, Pohomoosh, Gediak (i^he- 

 diac), Pictou, Kashpugowitk (Kespoog- 

 wit), Chignecto, Isle of St Johns, 

 Nalkitgoniash, Cape Breton, Minas, Chi- 

 gabennakadik (Shubenacadie), Keshpu- 

 gowitk (Kespoogvvit, duplicated), and 

 Rishebouctou (Richibucto). The Gas- 

 pesians are a band fif ^licmae differing 

 somewhat in dialect from the rest of the 

 tribe. 



In 1611 Biard estimated the Micmac at 

 3,000 to 3,500. In 1760 they were re- 

 ported at nearly 3,000, but had been lately 

 much wa.sted by sickness. In 1766 they 

 were again estimated at 3,500; in 1880 

 thev were officially reported at 3,892, and 

 in 1884 at 4,037. Of these, 2, 197 were in 

 Nova Scotia, 933 in New Brunswick, 615 

 in Quebec, and 292 on Prince Edward id. 

 In 1904, according to the Report of Cana- 

 dian Indian Affairs, they numbered 3,861, 

 of whom 579 were in Quebec province, 992 

 in New Brunswick, 1,998 in Nova Scotia, 

 and 292 on Prince Edward id. The num- 

 ber in Newfoundland is not known. 



The Micmac villages are as follows: 

 Antigonishe (?), Beaubassin (mission). 

 Boat Harbor, Chignecto, Eskusone, Indian 

 Village, Isle of St Johns, Kespoogwit, 

 Kigicapigiak, Le Have, Maria, Minas, 

 Miramichi, Nalkitgoniash, Nipigiguit, 

 Pictou, Pohomoosh, Restigouche, Richi- 

 bucto, Rocky Point, Shediac, Shubenac- 

 adie, and Tabogimkik. (.i. m. c. t. ) 



Acadcan. — Latham in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lonfl., 59, 

 1856 (misprint). Acadian Indians.— Jefferys, 

 French Doms., pt. 1, 6i), 1761 (Dawson in Hind, 

 Lab. Penin., n, 44, 1863, says Acadia is a Micmac 

 word used in composition to denote the local 

 abundance of objects referred to). Bark Indians. — 

 Buchanan, N. Am. Inds., 156, 1824. Kincke- 

 moeks.— Rasle (1724) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 

 2d s., VIII, 248, 1819 (misreadiner of MS. or mis- 

 print). Matu-es'-wi skitchi-nu-iik, — Chamberlain, 

 Malesit MS., B. A. E., 18.S2 (Malecite name, mean- 

 ing 'porcupine Indians': so'called on account of 

 their using- porcupine quills in ornamentation). 

 Mechimacks,— Boudinot, Starin the West, 127,1816. 

 Megum. — Rand, Mii mac First Reading Book, 81, 

 1875f a Micmac socalls himself). Megumawaach.— 

 Rand, Eng.-Micmac Diet., 169,1888. Michmacs,— 

 Trader in Smith, Bouquet's Exped., 69, 1766. 

 Mickemac— Lahontan (1703) quoted by Richard- 



son, Arctic Exped., ll, 38, 1851. Mickmacks. — 

 Longueuil (1726) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ix, 9.56, 

 18.55. Mickmaks. — Quotation in Drake, Bk. Inds., 

 bk. 3, 137, 1S4S. Miemacks.— Longueuil (1726) in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ix, \io{^. is.55. Micmaks.— 

 Begon (1725), ibid., 943. Mic Macs.— Potter in Me. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., IV, 192, 1S.56. Micmacs.— Doc.of 

 1696 in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., ix, 643, 18.55. Miggaa- 

 macks. — Rouillard, Xoms Geographiques, 63, 1906. 

 Mikemak. — Lahontan, New Voy. ,1,223, 1703 (given 

 also l)y Gatschet, Penobscot MS., 1887, as their 

 Penobscot name, 'Mikemak'; singular, MlkCma). 

 Mikmacs. — Vaudreuil(1757)inN. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., 

 X, 658, 18-58. Mikmak.— Cocquard (1757), ibid., 529. 

 Mukmacks.— Buchanan, N.Am. Inds., I, 139, 1824. 

 Shannok.— Gatschet in Proc.Am. Philos. Soc, 409, 

 1885. Shanung.— Gatschet, quoting Latham, ibid. 

 Shawnuk.— Gatschet, ibid. Shonack.— Lloyd, 

 quoting Payton, in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., iv, '29, 

 1875 ('bad Indians ': Beothuk name). Soricoi. — 

 DuCreux map of Canada (1660) cited by Vetro- 

 mile, .Vbnakis, 21, 18(;6( Latin form ). Sorriquois.— 

 Vetromile in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., vi, 210, 18,59. 

 Souricois.— Champlain (1603), CEuvres, 11, ,58, 1870. 

 Sourikois.— Jes. Rel. 1652, 26, 1858. Sourikwosi- 

 orum,— De Laet (1633) quoted by Tanner, Narr., 

 3'29, 1830. Souriquois.— Jes. Rel. 1611, 8, 18.58. Souri- 

 quosii. — De Laet (1633) quoted by Barton, New 

 Views, x.xxv, 1798. Sourriquois,— Vetromile in 

 Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., VI, '208. 18.59. Suriquois, —Lords 

 of Trade 1 1721) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., v. .592, 185.5. 

 Micoma. A Churaashan village between 

 Goleta and Pt Conception, Cal., in 1542. — 

 Cabrillo, Narr. (1542) in Smith, Colec. 

 Doc. Fla., 183. 1857. 

 Miconope. See Mikannpy. 

 Middle Creeks. A term used by some 

 English writers to designate the Creeks 

 on lower Tallapoosa r., Ala., Spanish and 

 French writers sometimes using the name 

 Talipuc^, or Talepuse. ( a. s. g. ) 



Middle-settlement Indians. The Chero- 

 kee formerly living in upper Georgia and 

 w. North Carolina, as distinguished from 

 those in South Carolina and Tennessee. — 

 Imlay, W. Ter., 363, 1797. 



Middle Town. A former Seneca village, 

 3 m. above the site of Chemung, N. Y., 

 destroyed bv Sullivan in 1779. — Jones 

 (1780) in N.Y. Doc. Col. Hist., viii, 785, 

 1857. 



Miduuski. An Ahtena village on the e. 

 bank of Copper r., Alaska, below the 

 mouth of Tonsina cr. 



Miemissouks. Given as the name of a 

 tribe somewhere between Bellingham bay 

 and Eraser r., in Washington or British 

 Columbia. Prol)ably Salishan, otherwise 

 unidentifiable. 



Miemissouks. — Starling in Ind. AIT. Rep., 170, 

 18-52. Misonk.— Ibid.. 171. 



Mienikashika ( ' those Avho became hu- 

 man beings by means of the sun'). A 

 Quapaw gens. 



Mi e'nikaci'iia. — Dorsev in 1.5th Rep. R. A.E., '2'29, 

 1897. Sun gens.— Ibid." 



Migichihiliniou (}fif/'i~lv'1nnfari'tr/, 'peo- 

 ple of the Eagle clan'; or perhaps Mlgisi-' 

 rvtri'niiivug, 'people with wampum', or 

 'people with the cowrie shells.' — VV. 

 J.). Given by Dobbs as the name of a 

 band of ( Algonquian?) Indians residing 

 on the "Lake of Eagles," between L. 

 Winnipeg and Lake of the Woods — prob- 

 ably Eagle lake, some distance n. e. of 

 Lake of the Woods. He thinks they were 



