Mi’kmaq Studies 10

Eskimo-aleut Spoken in Arctic regions, Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland Language of Inuit is Inuktitut

Athabaskan Spoken in Territories and Northern Prairies, Southwestern

USA Languages: Beaver, Chipewyan, Navaho, Apache

Siouan Spoken in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, USA Languages: Dakota

Iroquoian Spoken in Ontario, Quebec, New York, and other states Languages: Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Huron,

Tuscarora

Algonquian Most extensive of North American Language

Families Spoken along the Atlantic Coast from Labrador

to Carolinas, across Quebec and Ontario, in the Prairie Provinces, and into Mississippi River drainage

Languages: Beothuk, Cree, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, Blackfoot, Montagnais, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq

Only Maliseet and Mi’kmaq are spoken in the Maritime Provinces

Dark orange: Cree (Algonquian family) In Canada, it is spoken primarily in Quebec, Ontario, and into the

Prairies Brown: Algonquian family

In Canada, it is spoken in the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland, Prairies

Mi’kmaq and Maliseet are the only two Native Languages that are spoken in the Maritimes

Purple: Eskimo-Aleut (Inuktitut) Spoken in the Arctic regions

Light Green: Siouan (Dakota) Spoken in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Dark Green: Athabaskan Spoken in the Territories and Northern Prairies

Light Orange: Iroquoian Spoken in Ontario and Quebec

http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/lang/aboriginallanguages/bycommunity

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mikmaq.htm

What problems do you think arose from the language barriers that were present between the Mi’kmaq and the European settlers?

How do you think they overcame these barriers?

Who do you think tried to learn the others’ language?

Keep these ideas in mind when working on your journal entries!

Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary – words

Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary – Songs

Use the picture provided to find the Mi’kmaq translation of 10 things found in the picture.

These two sites will be helpful, but feel free to search for others: http://www.firstnationhelp.com/ali/

dictionary.php http://www.mikmaqonline.org/default.html