Nadine Bernard is running for the Liberal party in the N.S. riding of Victoria-The Lakes/Photo by Stephen Brake Nadine Bernard hopes to make history on August 17 by becoming the first Mi’kmaw person ...

Matthew Cope with the Millbrook First Nation, N.S. plans to file an injunction against DFO for seizing his lobster traps on Aug. 29, 2020/Photos contributed. A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester ...

A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has reserved his decision in a court case that involves the treaty right to fish to earn a moderate livelihood. Leon Knockwood, 27, James Nevin, 38, and Logan ...

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 ...

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.

The Membertou First Nation is the latest Mi’kmaw community to withdrawn from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs and the Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office. In a news release issued on ...

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 ...

Ursula Johnson says incorporating traditional Mi’kmaq stories into the annual Storytelling Festival at Kejimkujik National Park was important to her. “In the first year that we created the ...

Several activist against the Alton Natural Gas Storage project pitch in to paint the treaty truck house located near the project site/Photo by Stephen Brake Protesters against a company’s plan to ...

Residents in Moncton, N.B. woke up on Canada Day to find several posters of old photographs of Mi’kmaw people glued to city property. Patty Musgrave, who lives and works in Moncton, says she noticed ...

Lobster harvesters with Potlotek Mi'kmaw Nation, N.S. set traps in St. Peter's Bay on Oct. 1, 2020/Photo by Stephen Brake The co-chair of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs says negotiations ...