King Philip's War
The first documented warfare between the Miꞌkmaq and the British was during the First Abenaki War (the Maine/ Acadia theatre of King Philip's War), which was the Battle of Port La Tour (1677). In the wake of King Philip's War, the Miꞌkmaq became members of the "Wapnáki" (Wabanaki Confederacy), an alliance with four other Algonquian-language nations: the Abenaki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Maliseet.