| Title: | Micy (Mi'kmaq) |
| Original Title: | Souriquois, les |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 414 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Kathryn Heintzman [Harvard University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Micy (Mi'kmaq)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.072>. Trans. of "Souriquois, les," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Micy (Mi'kmaq)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.072 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Souriquois, les," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:414 (Paris, 1765). |
Micy, [1] people of North America, in New France, who live in Acadia. They live off fish in the summer and venison in the winter. They are obedient to chiefs they call sagamos , [2] and have no form of religion.
1. Presently known in English as the Mi’kmaq nation (formerly a part of the Wabanaki Confederacy); alternative transliterations include Mi’gmaq, Mickmak, and Micmac. Its self-designated term in the Mi’kmaq language is “L’nu”, meaning “the people.” In eighteenth-century English the group was referred to as the Micy tribe.
2. Spelled as “Sôgemô” in the modern Abenaki alphabet, Sôgemô refers to a male chief. Alternative transliterations include Sôgmo, Sogomo, and Sôgmô.