Sipekne’katik First Nation

Former Sipekne’katik Chief charged with assault in two separate cases

January 3, 2024 Maureen Googoo

The former chief of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia is facing assault charges in two separate cases. Michael Patrick Sack, 42, is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly wounding another man at or […]

List of 54 Mi’kmaw fishers charged with fishery offences

September 25, 2023 Maureen Googoo

Editor’s note: Several of these court cases have been updated since this list was initially published on Sept. 25, 2023. Ku’ku’kwes News has been tracking the court cases of 54 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters from Nova […]

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 […]

“It’s wild.” Sipekne’katik First Nation elects first female chief

November 6, 2022 Maureen Googoo

Michelle Glasgow says she is still in shock at becoming the first woman to be elected chief of Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia. “I don’t even know how to describe it in words,” Glasgow […]

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. […]

Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia

September 9, 2022 Maureen Googoo

A trial involving three Mi’kmaw fishermen who say they were exercising their treaty right to fish for a living when they were charged with fishery offences is currently underway in Digby, N.S. James Nevin, 38, […]

Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services sues Sipekne’katik following order to leave community

August 29, 2022 Maureen Googoo

An Indigenous agency that provides child protection and family support services to First Nation communities in Nova Scotia is suing the province’s second largest Mi’kmaw First Nation after it was ordered to leave one of […]

Federal government provides $326K in search for unmarked graves at Shubenacadie residential school site

April 21, 2022 Maureen Googoo

The federal government is providing $326,700 to go towards a project to search for unmarked graves of Indigenous children who died while attending the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in Nova Scotia. The funding, which […]

AFN National Chief calls on DFO to stop intimidating, harassing Mi’kmaw fishers

September 10, 2021 Maureen Googoo

The National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations is calling on the federal government to stop criminalizing treaty rights and end the harassment and intimidation of Mi’kmaw fishers on the waters. “Intimidation and violence […]

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 […]