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Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services sues Sipekne’katik following order to leave community
Mi'kmaw Family and Children's Services's office building in Indian Brook First Nation, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake An Indigenous agency that provides child protection and family support services to ...
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Mi’kmaw leaders accuse DFO of racism after fishermen were forced to walk at night without phones, shoes
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 ...
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Women’s group complete research into effects of Boat Harbour pollution
Scientists and researchers have completed six years of study in Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia to determine if the polluted effluent being pumped into nearby Boat Harbour is making ...
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Former Sipekne’katik finance director found guilty of theft, fraud
Lawyer Luke Craggs and Jeffrey Hayes leave the courtroom June 16 after a jury found Hayes guilty in theft, fraud trial/Photo by Stephen Brake The former finance director for the Sipekne’katik Band has ...
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First Nation communities in New Brunswick fight for land rights in landmark title cases
Three Indigenous groups in New Brunswick have launched separate legal actions against the provincial and federal governments. The Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey First Nations are pursuing a title case and ...
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Memorial set up to mourn discovery of remains of 215 children who attended B.C. residential school
Orange ribbons and teddy bears tied to a guardrail near the former site of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School/Photo by Stephen Brake Teddy bears, flowers and orange ribbons were tied to the ...
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Protecting Mi’kmaq Petroglyphs in Bedford, Kejimkujik National Park
When Donna Morris looks at the Mi’kmaq petroglyphs at Kejimkujik National Park, she sees history. “There’s a picture of a caribou. There’s a picture of a little missionary man that goes back to the ...
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Grand Chief Membertou’s gourd part of exhibit on Mi’kmaq, French history
Grand Chief Membertou gave his gourd to his godfather Charles Robin, shortly after being baptised at Port Royal, N.S. in 1610/Photo by Stephen Brake A unique piece of Mi’kmaw history is part of a new ...
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Trial of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw cultural educator charged with indecent act underway
A woman who has accused a well-known Mi’kmaw cultural educator from Nova Scotia of committing an indecent act in front of her testified in court that she feared for her safety when the alleged ...
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All documents of the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution now available online
The Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution has been completely digitized and uploaded onto the Nova Scotia Public Archives website/Photo by Stephen Brake The complete archive of a ...
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Band never authorized commission payments to Hayes, councillor testifies
Sipekne'katik Band Councillor Thomas J. Howe testified Wednesday in Jeff Hayes fraud trial/Photo by Stephen Brake Sipekne’katik Band chief and council never authorized a plan to pay the band’s finance ...
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Mi’kmaq leaders, Nova Scotia Government commit to long-term plan to treaty education
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Eskasoni Chief Leroy Denny and Millbrook Chief Bob Gloade sign MOU on treaty education/Photo by Stephen Brake The Nova Scotia government has signed a memorandum of ...