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[ May 1, 2023 ] Six Indigenous acts nominated for 2023 ECMA awards Atlantic
[ April 25, 2023 ] Mi’kmaw elder leads Earth Day events in Kjipuktuk News
[ April 8, 2023 ] NS Mi’kmaw leaders link lack of DFO control over elver eel fishery to shooting of Eskasoni man News
[ March 11, 2023 ] Indigenous play part of Neptune Theatre’s upcoming season News
[ March 6, 2023 ] Elver eel fishery trials set for Mi’kmaw fishermen in Dartmouth Court News
[ February 3, 2023 ] Finding the way Forward exhibit unveiled at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre News
[ 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

May 29, 2023

Six Indigenous acts nominated for 2023 ECMA awards

May 1, 2023 Crystal Greene

Six Indigenous acts are nominated for East Coast Music Awards and a Peskotomuhkati elder is being honoured at the upcoming ECMA awards show in Halifax on May 5. The artists are excited to attend the […]

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 […]

Elver eel fishery trials set for Mi’kmaw fishermen in Dartmouth Court

March 6, 2023 Haeley DiRisio

Editor’s note: This story was updated to include details of court proceedings that took place on Mar. 6. Several trials involving the treaty right to catch and sell fish are slated to get underway in […]

Mi’kmaw lawyer says federal government wants to limit treaty rights in Marshall decision through the courts

September 15, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A lawyer who is representing several Mi’kmaw fishermen in three separate fishery trials in Nova Scotia says the federal government is using the courts to limit where his clients can practice their treaty fishing rights. […]

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 […]

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