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Fort Folly First Nation
Fort Folly First Nation is a Mi'kmaq First Nations in Canada, First Nation band government located near the village of Dorchester, New Brunswick, Canada. Population The First Nation had a total of 158 people registered as of September 2020, of which 29 lived on their own reserve. Governance The current Chief of Fort Folly First Nation is Chief Rebecca Knockwood. The Councillor of the First Nation is Jennifer Crosthwaite. The band is a member of the North Shore Micmac District Council and the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations. Reserve The First Nation has one Indian reserve, reserve, Fort Folly 1, New Brunswick, Fort Folly 1. The reserve has an area of . This reserve came into existence in 1840, under the New Brunswick Indian Act. See also *List of communities in New Brunswick *First Nations in New Brunswick References External links Fort Folly First Nation websiteGovernment of Canada's Department of Indian and Northern Affairs First Nation profile Communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mi'kmaq
The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Mi'kmaw'' or ''Mi'gmaw''; ; , and formerly Micmac) are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine. The traditional national territory of the Mi'kmaq is named Mi'kma'ki (or Mi'gma'gi). There are 66,748 Mi'kmaq people in the region as of 2023 (including 25,182 members in the more recently formed Qalipu First Nation in Newfoundland). According to the Canadian 2021 census, 9,245 people claim to speak Mi'kmaq, an Eastern Algonquian language. Once written in Mi'kmaw hieroglyphic writing, it is now written using most letters of the Latin alphabet. The Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Pasamaquoddy nations signed a series of treaties known as the Covenant Chain of Peace and Friendship Treaties with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
