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MICMAC

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 380 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICMAC  , a tribe of

North Ameftcan Indians of Algonquian stock . They formerly occupied all Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Prince
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Edward Islands, and portions of New Brunswick,
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Quebec and
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Newfoundland . They fought on the French side in the colonial
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wars . They are now civilized and almost all profess Catholicism . They number some 4000 in settled communities throughout their former territory . There is an excellent account of the Micmac Indians in J . G . Millais's Newfoundland and its Untrodden Ways (1908) .

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