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"Mikwasis" could relate to mikwan meaning feather or miskwa (Anishinaabe) meaning red.

iskwaw / iskwew (in Cree) means woman.

So "Mikwasiskwaw" might mean something like:

“Red Woman” or possibly “Feather Woman” depending on interpretation.

"Umituk" might resemble tree or wood in some Algonquian languages (e.g., mitik in Cree = tree).

-ap as a suffix could possibly relate to a location or object.

This might be interpreted as something like “from the tree” or “tree-born”, possibly even “wood spirit”.

"Aytakunich" sounds quite close to the Innu word aitakun, which can mean “spirit” or “dream”.

The suffix -ich could be a personal or adjectival modifier.

Possible translation: “Of the spirits”, “dream-being”, or “one who is spirit-like.”

Mikwasiskwaw Umitukap Aytakunich could roughly be interpreted as:

“Red Woman of the Tree, Spirit-like” or “Feather Woman Born of the Tree, of the Spirits”.