Eskasoni Archives – Ku'ku'kwes News

Mi’kmaw elder leads Earth Day events in Kjipuktuk

April 25, 2023 Crystal Greene

Mi’kmaw elder Dorene Bernard wants to raise awareness about climate change and its damaging effects to the environment. “There’s more people awakened to the urgency about climate change, of the impact to the land and […]

NS Mi’kmaw leaders link lack of DFO control over elver eel fishery to shooting of Eskasoni man

April 8, 2023 Maureen Googoo

Mi’kmaw leaders in Nova Scotia are accusing the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of not doing enough to control the elver eel fishery following an alleged shooting of an Eskasoni man in Meteghan, N.S. “We […]

Mi’kmaw Language Act proclamation takes centre stage at opening ceremony of NS Mi’kmaw Summer Games

July 18, 2022 Maureen Googoo

Mi’kmaw leaders and athletes from across Nova Scotia gathered in Potlotek Mi’kmaw Nation Sunday afternoon to celebrate the opening of the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games and the proclamation of the Mi’kmaw Language Act. The […]

Mi’kmaw woman hopes to make history in Nova Scotia election

July 17, 2021 Maureen Googoo

Nadine Bernard hopes to make history on August 17 by becoming the first Mi’kmaw person to be elected to the Nova Scotia legislature. The Mi’kmaw woman is the provincial Liberal Party candidate for the riding, […]

Lawyer for Mi’kmaw fishermen says charges against them should be dismissed

October 27, 2020 Maureen Googoo

The lawyer representing four Mi’kmaw lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia says all fishery charges against them should be dismissed. “We have four Mi’kmaw fishermen that were fishing under their right to (fish for) a moderate […]

Eskasoni fisherman plans to fight fishery charges against him

October 25, 2020 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaw lobster fisherman from Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia says he plans to fight several fishery charges against him. Ashton Bernard, 30, says he was exercising his treaty right to fish for a […]

Missing teen found safe after search in wooded area in Cape Breton

August 22, 2020 Maureen Googoo

A 14-year-old girl from We’koqma’q First Nation in Nova Scotia who was missing for more than a week has been found safe. According to a news release, RCMP Air Services reported a fire in an […]

Remembering William Basque, the Mi’kmaw veteran behind the poem, Sma’knis

November 8, 2019 Maureen Googoo

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 […]

Meet the 3 Indigenous candidates in Atlantic Canada running in the Oct. 21 federal election

September 16, 2019 Maureen Googoo

Three Indigenous people in Atlantic Canada are running in the Oct. 21 federal election. One candidate is seeking re-election while the other two are running for the first time. In Newfoundland and Labrador, Liberal candidate […]

Nova Scotia judge grants temporary injunction against Mi’kmaw water protector, supporters

March 19, 2019 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has granted the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project company a temporary injunction against a Mi’kmaw water protector and his supporters currently occupying the entrance to the company’s property in […]

Mi’kmaw man’s lawyer wants court injunction by Alton Gas dismissed

March 13, 2019 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia denies he is blocking employees with Alton Natural Gas Storage Project Inc. from accessing company facilities along the Shubenacadie River near Stewiake, N.S. A lawyer […]

Q&A with ECMA nominee City Natives

May 2, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final profile of artists nominated for an East Coast Music Award in the Indigenous Artist of the Year category. The awards show will be held in Halifax on […]

University prof studying rate of malocclusions among Mi’kmaq

May 3, 2017 Samantha Calio

An anthropologist at Saint Mary’s University is conducting research on the rate and severity of dental malocclusions among Mi’kmaw people in Atlantic Canada. Tanya Peckmann, a professor in the Anthropology Department at SMU in Halifax, […]

Leader of largest Mi’kmaw community calls Liberal majority “a big relief”

October 20, 2015 Maureen Googoo

Eskasoni Chief Leroy Denny called Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s victory in the federal election Monday “a big relief.” “Finally, our voices are heard and I’m proud of our First Nation for voting.” “I’m especially proud […]