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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

Mi’kmaw play, KOQM, describes colonialism in Nova Scotia from a Mi’kmaw woman’s perspective

August 11, 2022 Maureen Googoo

Mi’kmaw poet and storyteller shalan joudry says she was inspired to write her play, KOQM, when she noticed the town of Annapolis Royal’s plans in 2021 to celebrate 400 years of the signing of the […]

An interview with Theresa Meuse, author of L’nu’k: The People

December 22, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Mi’kmaq author Theresa Meuse has written a book aimed at teaching children about the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The book is titled, L’nuk: The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. In it, Meuse, 58, explains to readers […]

An interview with Danielle Cyr, co-author of book about history of Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmaq

November 18, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Danielle Cyr, a specialist in Algonquian languages and comparative linguistics, is one of the co-authors of the book, Nta’tugwaqanminen, Our Story – Evolution of the Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmaq. The book, published by Fernwood Press, chronicles the entire history of the […]

Dalhousie University launches new indigenous studies program

September 16, 2015 Maureen Googoo

A Mi’kmaq academic is in charge of a new indigenous studies minor program at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Diana Lewis, originally from Indian Brook First Nation, N.S., began her position as the program coordinator of […]

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