Men’s and women’s clothing were richly embellished with beads and embroidery. As with many other eastern First Nations, traditionally, headdresses had feathers that stood up straight at the front of the headdress. The women’s peaked cap is unique to Mi’kmaw culture.

The Jay Treaty allows the Mi’kmaq people to live and to work in the United States and Canada, and to cross the border freely with personal property.

Mi’kmaw people have historically had a good relationship with French settlers. The French were more interested in trading with the Mi’kmaq, and consequently more respectful of Mi’kmaq culture than were the British. The British came to settle Mi’kma’ki and displace the Mi’kmaq.

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

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.

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

Men and women would be buried with everything they might need, including unfinished projects, so they would be well prepared in the Ghost World. This practice is continued by some Mi’kmaq today.

Turtles are always at home.

Raccoons are clever and adaptable creatures, adjusting well to city life. Remember the next time you’re cleaning up after one; that he thinks you live in his back yard.

The bowl was hollowed out of a large burl, or knot, which grew on the trunks of large trees.