Acadia First Nation is composed of Yarmouth, Midway, Wild Cat, Pon Hook and Gold River.  The main office is located in Yarmouth with a sub-office in Liverpool.  The number of households is currently seventy with a population of 865.  All the students from this community attend a provincial school where there is no Mi'kmaw language instruction available.  Approximately 90% of the households in this area were surveyed.

 In Yarmouth, there is a day care that has ten children in attendance.  None of the children or teachers speak the Mi'kmaw language.  According to the Director of Education, she is unaware of anyone who is fluent in her area.  She believes that there might be one speaker (an elder) in Gold River and one in Wild Cat.  The reason why there are no speakers in this area is because the children always attended schools off the reserve.  The parents of these children felt that it would be better for their children to learn English.  In fact, in some homes the children were prevented from hearing Mi'kmaw spoken.  The parents wanted to make sure their children succeeded in school.

 There are a total of forty-nine students that attend provincial schools in this area.  Thirty-one are in grades K-6 and eighteen are in junior high and high school.   The chances of these children ever getting a course in Mi'kmaw is very slim.  One of the biggest hindrances would be getting a fluent teacher.  Miss Francis believes that if they could get a teacher, then there is a possibility of providing Mi'kmaw in daycare only.  She does not feel that it will be available in the near future in the provincial schools in her area.

 As for priorities in the revitalization of the Mi'kmaw language, the director felt that getting resource people would be number one.  She also felt the curriculum materials such as lesson plans, grammar and literature were very important.  The least important were audio, video tapes, and dictionary.

 The director felt that if there were people interested in learning the language, they would likely conduct classes in conversational Mi'kmaw for non-speakers.  Here again, there would be a problem; in universities in Wolfville and Halifax, there are no courses available in Mi'kmaw.  Their only hope would be the Kjipuktuk Learning Centre (Halifax) or if a satellite system was set up in a more convenient location for the bands in this jurisdiction.  They did have workshops one time where a resource person taught the Mi'kmaw language to adults.  The workshops lasted from eight to ten weeks.
 In the Acadia First Nation, the Mi'kmaw language is virtually extinct.