Families in Nova Scotia who plan on participating in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will now have a specialized support team to help them through the process ...
Rose Basque recalls when her late husband, William Basque, wrote the poem, Sma’knis, back in 1992. She said he had trouble going to sleep one night. “He said, ‘Oh my God. My mind is going really fast.
Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters in southwestern Nova Scotia say they feel harassed by non-Indigenous harvesters for practicing their treaty right to earning a moderate livelihood by setting lobster traps ...
Mi’kmaw leaders are accusing Fishery and Oceans Canada, or DFO, of systemic racism after two Mi’kmaw fishermen from Unama’ki (Cape Breton) were forced to walk along the highway at night without their ...
Catherine Benton is the first Mi'kmaw women judge in Nova Scotia/Photo courtesy of the Executive Office of the Nova Scotia Judiciary Catherine Benton is the first Mi’kmaw woman judge in Nova Scotia.
Glenn Knockwood, 34, wants to open a Parkour gym in the Halifax area/Photo by Stephen Brake A Mi’kmaw entrepreneur and Parkour enthusiast wants to make his dream of opening an indoor Parkour gym in ...
Delilah Saunders, right, at the MMIWG hearings in Membertou, N.S. in Oct. 2017/Photo by Karli Zschogner A panel of mostly Indigenous writers and artists challenged journalists and writers to be more ...
Dan Christmas, 60, from Membertou First Nation, N.S. was appointed as a non-partisan senator Oct. 27/Photo by Stephen Brake Dan Christmas, who has devoted most of his career working to better the ...
Matthew Cope, 36, aboard his lobster boat, Mystique Lady, in Digby, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell ...
A group that took part in a water ceremony in Sydney, N.S. march towards Membertou First Nation on Sunday/Photo by Stephen Brake More than hundred people gathered in Membertou First Nation, N.S.
Patricia Bernard was re-elected as chief of Madawaska Maliseet First Nation, N.B. Aug. 27/Photo contributed. Patricia Bernard has been re-elected as chief of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation.
Mi’kmaq author Theresa Meuse has written a book aimed at teaching children about the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The book is titled, L’nuk: The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. In it, Meuse, 58, explains ...