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[ January 10, 2023 ] Nova Scotia judge dismisses charges against three Mi’kmaw fishermen News
[ November 6, 2022 ] “It’s wild.” Sipekne’katik First Nation elects first female chief News
[ October 19, 2022 ] Nova Scotia judge reserves decision in treaty fishing rights case News
[ September 15, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw lawyer says federal government wants to limit treaty rights in Marshall decision through the courts News
[ September 9, 2022 ] Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia News
[ August 29, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services sues Sipekne’katik following order to leave community News
[ August 23, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw fisherman to set date for trial on constitutional challenge in October News
[ August 22, 2022 ] Mi’kmaw fisherman seeks court approval to fight fishery charges on constitutional grounds News
[ 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

January 27, 2023

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The Membertou First Nation is the latest Mi’kmaw community to withdrawn from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs and the Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office.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