Porcupines have sharp barbed quills, which can be painful and difficult if they get lodged in skin.

“Kwitn,” a Mi’kmaw birch bark canoe is a sturdy and agile watercraft.

Wela’lin means “thank you”. You could respond in Mi’kmaq with “weliaq”.

Coming in between a bear and her cub can be dangerous. Fair-warning should be given when passing through bear country, so the bear and cub can move out of your path.

The Mi’kmaq have used a system of hieroglyphics, particularly for religious texts, for centuries. Whether the hieroglyphics representations (i.e. memory aids), but words that can be used to write unique phrases. The first recording of hieroglyphics is in 1677 by a Jesuit priest named Chrestien Le Clercq in the Mi’kmaw community of Nipisiguit along the Miramichi River in New Brunswick. The Mi’kmaw system of hieroglyphics was used to translate numerous religious texts and these texts along the syllabaries can still be found in families and in some museum collections. The use of the hieroglyphics, however, does not change the fact that Mi’kmaw culture is primarily an oral culture in that histories, stories, and everyday life were anchored in conveying knowledge through speaking rather than writing.

A “Leister” is an English term for a traditional fishing spear. All three answers are traditional tools of a Mi’kmaw hunter.

Don’t eat your hat.

Grand Chief Membertou, along with 21 members of his family, were baptized in A.D. 1610.

Turtles are always at home.

“Kesalul” means “I love you”. You might say “kesalul aq nin” (and that means I love you too).