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Meaning & History
The Mi'kmaq name for their ancestral and unceaded territory, which includes modern-day Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador and well and parts of Quebec and Maine. It comes from the name of the Mi'kmaq people, whose name comes from the term nikmaq, which translates approximately to "the people" or "the friends".