The chief of the Tobique First Nation says the Maliseet First Nations are considering putting forth a claim of Aboriginal title for traditional lands in western New Brunswick. Vous êtes au bon endroit ! Pour toutes questions, veuillez contacter notre réceptionniste afin qu'elle puisse adresser votre demande à la bonne personne. Notre site web est présentement en construction.

The total registered populations of Wolastoqiyik First Nations in Canada as of July 2018 are: Kingsclear (1,042, with 732 living on reserve), Oromocto (707, with 321 on reserve), Madawaska (374, with 153 on reserve), Saint Mary’s (1,927, with 878 on reserve), Tobique (2,479, with 1,558 on reserve) and Woodstock (1,074, with 290 on reserve). The Maliseet of Viger First Nation has more than 1,650 members living off-reserve, scattered throughout Quebec. French settlement began in the late 1600s, and there is mention of. Tobique is the largest of the Wolastoqiyik and Maliseet Nation reserves in NB with a population of approximately 2500. The Canadian Press … Kevin Bissett. The first site was downriver near the community of Meductic. FREDERICTON. It has two reserves, Cacouna and Whitworth, both located on traditional territory in the Lower St. Lawrence region. A smaller band of the larger Maliseet Nation of New Bunswick, Canada, the Houlton Band calls the Meduxnekeag River home. French fort there in 1693. The Wəlastəkwewiyik, or Maliseet (English: / ˈ m æ l ə ˌ s iː t /, also spelled Malecite), are an Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.They are the Indigenous people of the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, and their territory extends across the current borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and parts of Maine in the United States. Woodstock First Nation, NB E7M 4K6 (506) 328-3303 – Band Office (506-) 328-2420 – Fax Number The area is the traditional territory of the Maliseet First Nations (Aboriginal) people. The fortified village of Meductic was the principal settlement of the Maliseet First Nation from before the 17th century until the middle of the 18th, and it was an important fur trading centre.

The Maliseets are river people who have traditionally been hunters and gatherers in the St. John River basin, of which the Meduxnekeag is a tributary. Tobique First Nation is one of six Wolastoqiyik or Maliseet Nation reserves in New Brunswick, Canada.

Keep checking back….more to come! History of the Maliseet First Nation at Kingsclear to 1950. 1771 Main Street Madawaska Maliseet First Nation, New Brunswick E7C 1W9 Phone: (506) 739-9765 Fax: (506) 735-0024 Website: www.madawaskamaliseetfirstnation.com By Andrea Bear Nicholas, Chair in Native Studies, St. Thomas University, June 2013. 3 Wulastook Court. Woodstock First Nation was the second site for this Band of Maliseet people. The river itself is prized for its brook and brown trout populations. The Tobique Reserve is located on the north side of the Tobique River. The Maliseet Trail was one of the most important routes traveled by the semi-nomadic peoples we now call the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot First Nations(1).Reports of portage trails with solid rock furrowed by the moccasins of the native tribes led to speculation in the 1800s that the Trail was the earliest evidence of man in Eastern North America(2). In 1763, the region passed into British hands and its French population diminished due to the deportation of the Acadians. Woodstock First Nation.