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[ November 18, 2019 ] Former NSNWA President files human rights complaint against NS Aboriginal Affairs Minister News
[ November 8, 2019 ] Remembering William Basque, the Mi’kmaw veteran behind the poem, Sma’knis News
[ November 8, 2019 ] Poem: Sma’knis by William Basque News
[ November 6, 2019 ] Band members have more questions than answers in proposed 1919 land claim deal News
[ October 31, 2019 ] Prosper seeks fourth term as Chief of Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation News
[ October 29, 2019 ] Mi’kmaw lawyer wants Alton to stop work until court injunction is decided News
[ October 22, 2019 ] Two Indigenous candidates from Atlantic Canada win seats in 2019 Federal Election Atlantic
[ October 18, 2019 ] First Nation leaders concerned correct info on day school settlement not reaching former students Maritimes
[ October 13, 2019 ] All documents of the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution now available online News
[ October 11, 2019 ] Nova Scotia, Newfoundland Mi’kmaw Chiefs remove Morley Googoo as AFN regional vice-chief News

July 11, 2020

Sipekne’katik harvesters sell lobster on Digby wharf to show solidarity for treaty rights

October 4, 2019 Maureen Googoo

Harvesters with the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia dropped lobster traps in waters in the Annapolis Basin and sold their catch on the wharf in Digby Thursday to make a point they have a […]

A Mi’kmaw fisherman is fighting the same fishery charges his father faced 20 years ago

September 24, 2019 Maureen Googoo

A young Mi’kmaw man from Nova Scotia is vowing to fight fishery charges against him like his father did 20 years ago. Leon Knockwood, who is from Sipekne’katik First Nation, N.S. has been charged with […]

NS Mi’kmaw fishermen say DFO seized lobster traps tagged under moderate livelihood

August 20, 2019 Maureen Googoo

Editor’s note: Updated at 10:52 p.m. Includes response from DFO. Two Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fishermen say the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are violating their treaty right to fish for a moderate livelihood by seizing […]

DFO in talks with Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fishermen to settle lawsuit says lawyer

May 9, 2019 Maureen Googoo

Four Mi’kmaw fishermen from Nova Scotia are in negotiations with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to settle a lawsuit they launched against the department in February. The lawyer for Mark Howe, Jeremy Syliboy, Alex […]

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