Mico / Mi'kmaq: the eastern shoreline to the Caribbean

SUMMARYMico / Mi'kmaq: the eastern shoreline to the Caribbean (Nov 3, 2026). Tito: "Mico, Mi'kmaq, all along the eastern shoreline to the Caribbean. This is our land, our culture."
RECORD, Mi'kmaq homeland = "New Scotland": Mi'kma'ki is the Mi'kmaq homeland (today's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, Gaspé, Newfoundland). The English charter of 1621 named it "Nova Scotia," New Scotland. The "Scots" label was laid over Mi'kmaq land (ties to P190).
RECORD, Mi'kmaq writing: the Mi'kmaq had their own pictographic/hieroglyphic writing system (komqwejwi'kasikl). The missionary Chrétien Le Clercq adapted it for prayers from about 1677. Barry Fell argued in the 1970s that the signs resemble Egyptian hieratic (Disputed; most scholars say the resemblance is coincidental or missionary-shaped). Lens: an Egyptian-looking script on the Atlantic coast.
RECORD, Mi'kmaq at sea: a Mi'kmaq–Basque trade pidgin was in use in the 1500s; the Mi'kmaq sailed European-style shallops. Messamouet, a Mi'kmaq leader, lived in Bayonne, France, as a guest of the town's governor in the 1580s, an Atlantic traveler from this coast.
RECORD, "Mico": among the Muscogee (Creek), "mico" (miko) is the title of a town chief (e.g., the Tallassee Mico); "Mico" also appears in Creek and Seminole place and personal names

PATTERNone coast of related peoples and titles: Mi'kmaq (the north), Accomac and Gingaskin (the Eastern Shore), Muscogee micos (the Southeast), Taíno (the Caribbean). Colonial labels ("Nova Scotia," "Creek," "Negro," "Carib") split one shoreline into separate stories

LENSthis is our land and our culture, the whole Atlantic coast from Mi'kma'ki to Ayiti (Pattern)

OPENdoes "Mi'kmaq" or "mico" link linguistically (Algonquian vs. Muskogean are different families in mainstream linguistics; test the shared titles and trade words).