July 2016 – Ku'ku'kwes News

NB Indian Summer Games underway in Eel Ground First Nation

July 28, 2016 Maureen Googoo

More than 1,400 Mi’kmaq and Maliseet athletes from across New Brunswick are in Eel Ground First Nation near Miramichi, N.B., this week to compete in the 2016 New Brunswick Indian Summer Games. Athletes aged 5 […]

Tobique mother uses social media to document daughter’s battle with cancer

July 26, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A New Brunswick mother is using social media to document and share her four-year-old daughter’s battle with brain cancer. Elizabeth Paul, 26, from the Maliseet community of Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, has been […]

Eskasoni man who makes tiny baskets to represent Mi’kmaq at festival in France

July 15, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni, N.S., who specializes in making tiny Mi’kmaq baskets has been invited to take part in a world festival in France to share his unique artistry. “I’ll be representing the Mi’kmaw […]

Judge dismisses Sipekne’katik’s request for a stay in Alton Gas project

July 13, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has dismissed the Sipekne’katik Band’s request to delay the Alton Natural Gas Storage project until a decision is made in its court appeal of the same project. In a […]

Blackstock says Mi’kmaw Family & Children’s Services of NS underfunded

July 7, 2016 Maureen Googoo

The head of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada says the federal government is still underfunding the Nova Scotia agency in charge of child welfare in Mi’kmaw communities. Cindy Blackstock says […]

Eskasoni celebrates its 25th annual Powwow

July 4, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Michael Doucette recalled organizing the first powwow for his home community of Eskasoni First Nation, N.S. back in the summer of 1992. Doucette, 55, said at the time, he and a few others in his community […]