Mi’kmaq – Ku'ku'kwes News

First Nation communities in New Brunswick fight for land rights in landmark title cases

October 14, 2024 Aswin Nair

Three Indigenous groups in New Brunswick have launched separate legal actions against the provincial and federal governments. The Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey First Nations are pursuing a title case and title claim, respectively, while the Peskotomuhkati […]

Three Indigenous artists nominated at 2024 MusicNL awards

September 6, 2024 Aswin Nair

Three Indigenous artists have been nominated for an award with the Music NL, the music industry association for Newfoundland and Labrador. Summer Bennett, DT Surgeon and Lorna Lovell are nominated in the Indigenous Artist/Group of […]

Second Mi’kmaw candidate running in Nova Scotia election

July 23, 2021 Maureen Googoo

A second Mi’kmaw person is running in the Nova Scotia election. Bryson Syliboy is the New Democratic Party candidate in the provincial riding of Richmond in Cape Breton. If elected, Syliboy would be the first […]

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 […]

Defining a Moderate Livelihood: Part 2

May 15, 2019 Olivia Blackmore

Editor’s Note: This news story is the last in a two-part series examining the issue of defining ‘moderate livelihood’ as the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Donald Marshall, […]

Defining a ‘Moderate Livelihood’: Part 1

May 13, 2019 Olivia Blackmore

Editor’s Note: This news story is the first in a two-part series examining the issue of defining ‘moderate livelihood’ as the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling in the Donald Marshall, […]

Seek permission before writing about MMIWG, panel tells creative writers, artists

April 23, 2018 Karli Zschogner

Creative writers and artists should seek permission from families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls before publishing their work, panelists told an audience in Halifax on April 18. The panel was assembled in […]

Wabanaki Confederacy 2017 gathering held at Kejimkujik National Park

August 24, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Hugh Akagi thought about the future of the Wabanaki Confederacy while the partial eclipse was happening Monday afternoon. The chief of the Passamaquoddy people in Canada had travelled from his home in St. Andrews, N.B. […]

Peace and Friendship celebration between Mi’kmaq, Acadians at Grand Pré

August 11, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Assembly of First Nations Vice-Chief Morley Googoo said he got the idea to hold a celebration gathering for both Mi’kmaw and Acadian people during a walk through Grand Pré National Historic Site at Grand Pré, […]

Sanipass hopes to become first Mi’kmaw elected to NS Legislature

May 29, 2017 Maureen Googoo

Trevor Sanipass hopes to become the first Mi’kmaw elected to the Nova Scotia Legislature. “We need Indigenous representation throughout Nova Scotia so I felt that it was important (to run), Sanipass explained during an interview […]

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, […]

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 […]

Indigenous youth conference focuses on mental health issues

August 8, 2016 Maureen Googoo

Indigenous youth need to take their health seriously if they want to do well in their studies. That was the message of the Mi’kmaq Maliseet Atlantic Youth Council conference that was held August 5-7 in […]

Judge dismisses Millbrook’s request to overturn human rights tribunal’s discrimination ruling

August 6, 2016 Maureen Googoo

A federal court judge has dismissed a Nova Scotia First Nation’s request for a judicial review of a 2015 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision that found it discriminated and retaliated against one of its female […]

Potlotek band member says band denying her right to vote for not sending mail-in ballot

August 5, 2016 Maureen Googoo

An off-reserve band member with the Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia says her band is denying her democratic right to vote in the band election being held today because she didn’t receive a mail-in […]