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[ August 11, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw play, KOQM, describes colonialism in Nova Scotia from a Mi’kmaw woman’s perspective News
[ August 1, 2022 ] Resiliency Centre a dream come true for Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association News
[ July 20, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw fisherman using 1752 treaty, ancestry in legal battle with DFO News
[ July 18, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw Language Act proclamation takes centre stage at opening ceremony of NS Mi’kmaw Summer Games News
[ July 17, 2022 ] Countdown for the 2023 North American Indigenous Games in Halifax begins News
[ July 9, 2022 ] Former AFN vice-chief not guilty of sex assault News
[ April 26, 2022 ] Trial of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw cultural educator charged with indecent act underway News
[ April 25, 2022 ] Accuser testifies in sex assault trial of former AFN Vice-Chief Morley Googoo News
[ April 21, 2022 ] Federal government provides $326K in search for unmarked graves at Shubenacadie residential school site Maritimes
[ September 10, 2021 ] AFN National Chief calls on DFO to stop intimidating, harassing Mi’kmaw fishers News

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Mi’kmaw fisherman using 1752 treaty, ancestry in legal battle with DFO

July 20, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell fish because he is a direct descendant of the Mi’kmaw Grand Chief who signed one of the Peace […]

AFN National Chief calls on DFO to stop intimidating, harassing Mi’kmaw fishers

September 10, 2021 Maureen Googoo

The National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations is calling on the federal government to stop criminalizing treaty rights and end the harassment and intimidation of Mi’kmaw fishers on the waters. “Intimidation and violence […]

Membertou latest First Nation to leave Assembly of NS Mi’kmaw Chiefs, KMKNO

October 28, 2020 Maureen Googoo

The Membertou First Nation is the latest Mi’kmaw community to withdrawn from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs and the Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office.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 Wednesday, Membertou Chief Terry […]

Nova Scotia chiefs rejected $87-million offer from DFO, want moderate livelihood defined

October 5, 2020 Maureen Googoo

The co-chair of the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs says negotiations with the federal government over the treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood from the fishery reached an impasse earlier this year because […]

Nova Scotia First Nation launches its own moderate livelihood fishery

September 18, 2020 Maureen Googoo

Unable to reach an agreement with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to define a moderate livelihood, one Nova Scotia First Nation has instead launched its own rights-based lobster fishery. The Sipekne’katik First Nation rolled […]

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