Millbrook First Nation Archives

Indigenous play part of Neptune Theatre’s upcoming season

March 11, 2023 Haeley DiRisio

An Indigenous adaptation of a Shakespeare play will be part of Neptune Theatre’s upcoming 2023-24 season. Pawâkan Macbeth written by Reneltta Arluk, is scheduled to be performed at Neptune Theatre in Halifax, N.S. Oct. 3-8. […]

Resiliency Centre a dream come true for Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association

August 1, 2022 Maureen Googoo

Bernadette Marshall says it has always been her dream to have a centre just for Mi’kmaw women in Nova Scotia. Now, the president of the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association says that dream will become […]

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 […]

Millbrook First Nation woman charged in connection with death of Sipekne’katik man

August 27, 2021 Maureen Googoo

A woman from the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia has been charged in connection with the death of a man from the Sipekne’katik First Nation. Adria Gloade, 37, is charged with being accessory after […]

Sipekne’katik chief arrested, detained by DFO following launch of annual treaty lobster fishery

August 17, 2021 Maureen Googoo

The chief of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia was arrested and questioned by federal fishery officers Monday just as community fishers began its annual treaty lobster fishery in Saulnierville, N.S. Chief Mike Sack […]

Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters feeling harassed for practising moderate livelihood fishery

September 4, 2020 Maureen Googoo

Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters in southwestern Nova Scotia say they feel harassed by non-Indigenous harvesters for practicing their treaty right to earning a moderate livelihood by setting lobster traps in St. Mary’s Bay. “It’s been very […]

Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester to file an injunction against DFO for seizing traps

September 1, 2020 Maureen Googoo

A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw lobster harvester plans to file an injunction against the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for seizing his traps in the Bay of Fundy last weekend. “I’m going to get (my lawyer) […]

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 […]

Band members have more questions than answers in proposed 1919 land claim deal

November 6, 2019 Maureen Googoo

Several members of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia have more questions than answers after examining one of the three parcels of land in Halifax County that’s part of a $49-million land claim. On […]

Halifax vying to host North American Indigenous Games in 2020

April 13, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Members of a Nova Scotia committee hoping to bring the North American Indigenous Games to Halifax in 2020 got a chance this week to show the selection team what the city can offer if chosen. […]

Millbrook First Nation honours Mi’kmaw veterans on Remembrance Day

November 11, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Former United States Marine Corps Sergeant Mike Stephens described Saturday’s Remembrance Day service in Millbrook First Nation, N.S. as humbling. “My grandfathers were WWI and WWII veterans. To be even remotely considered in the same […]

Family seeking justice in Mi’kmaw woman’s death testify in Day 2 of MMIWG hearings in Membertou

November 1, 2017 Maureen Googoo

More stories of pain, survival and seeking justice were heard on Day 2 of public hearings with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Membertou, N.S. Tuesday. Family members and […]

Photo Essay: Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance leads 30th Annual Halifax Pride Parade

July 23, 2017 Stephen Brake

For the first time, an Indigenous-themed float led the 30th annual Halifax Pride Parade on July 22.The float was submitted by the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance, an organization that represents Indigenous LGBTQ and Two-Spirits in Atlantic […]

2015 Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games end with crowds “in the thousands”

August 24, 2015 Maureen Googoo

Fans filled all of the bleachers at the Millbrook First Nation ball field to watch the final softball game before the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games came to a close on Sunday. The senior “A” […]