- a variation of Maliseet.
Malecite
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Canoe Expert Adney gives lessons to New Brunswick's Micmac and Malecite Indians in their forgotten art: canoe making.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Micmacs of Nova Scotia, the Malecite of New Brunswick, the Naskapi of Quebec, the Chippewa of Ontario, and the Crees of the prairie, are of this stock.
From The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)
It included the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Norridgewock, Malecite and other tribes.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Malecites and Micmacs, Abenakis from the Penobscot and Abenakis from the Kennebec, were here, some four hundred warriors in all.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis
When the French came, and for long after, this country was the hunting ground of tribes of the Algonquin race—Micmacs, Malecites, and Abnakis or Abenakis.
From The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir
Here were now collected eight thousand men, of whom two thousand were Indians, representing forty-one tribes and sub-tribes: among them were Iroquois, Hurons, Nipissings, Abenakis, Algonkins, Micmacs, and Malecites.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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