micmac n also mickmack O Sup2 ~ sb a. (1830-), b. (1911-). (a) Indian of a branch of the Algonkian people settled in Newfoundland; (b) the language of these indians.
[(1705) 1978 PASTORE 6 Vingt ou Vingt Cinq familles des Sauvages Miquemacs du Cap Breton sont passez clans cette Isle.] [1767] 1965 SKELTON 17 Found here a tribe of the Mickmack Indians. 1819 ANSPACH 182 He was cruising, in September, 1763, as Surrogate, along the south-west part of Newfoundland, when he observed a large party of the Indians, called Mickmacks. [1822] 1928 CORMACK 1 To accompany me in the performance, I engaged in my service first, a Micmac Indian, a noted hunter from the south-west of the island. [1886] 1915 HOWLEY 314 The first of these, Micmac, was spoken also upon the isle itself. 1907 MILLAIS 217 The Micmac Indians, who are a branch of the Great Algonquin race of Eastern Canada, first arrived in Newfoundland about the middle of the eighteenth century. 1972 RLS 4, p. 2 As far as concerns the Micmac spoken in Newfoundland, [there is] occasional free alternation of [k] and [x].
