A news conference was held at the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax Feb. 21 to announce appeals against the Alton Gas storage project along the Shubenacadie River/Photo by Stephen Brake The ...

The leader that represents the Passamaquoddy people in Canada says they’re moving closer to receiving status by the Canadian government. “Well it seems like it is coming to fruition,” Chief Hugh Akagi ...

Mark Eyking (Liberal) left, Adrianna MacKinnon (Green), Dr. Monicka Dutt (NDP) and John Douglas Chaisson (Conservative) took part in the Unama'ki First Nation Roundtable held in Membertou Oct. 8/Photo ...

Former Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks to group at the treaty education public forum in Halifax Monday/Photo by Stephen Brake More Nova Scotians need to learn their shared treaty history with ...

When Donna Morris looks at the Mi’kmaq petroglyphs at Kejimkujik National Park, she sees history. “There’s a picture of a caribou. There’s a picture of a little missionary man that goes back to the ...

The Membertou Band in Nova Scotia is the first band in Atlantic Canada trying out a new option for band members to vote in an upcoming referendum on its Family Homes Law. For the first […] ...

Shane Bernard, right, and Nevada Francis, left, on behalf of her father, Liam Bernard, received the Nova Scotia Medal of Bravery Nov. 8, 2017/Photo by Stephen Brake Two Mi’kmaw men from Waycobah First ...

More Nova Scotians need to learn their shared treaty history with Mi’kmaw people, a public forum on treaty education was told on Monday. “There’s a need for this relationship to get better,” said ...

Former NSNWA president Cheryl Maloney, right, has filed a human rights complaint against Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil/Photos by Stephen Brake The former president of the Nova Scotia Native Women ...

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 […] ...

Ursula Johnson, Interpreter at Kejimkujik National Park, creates a puppet based on Mi'kmaq legend about Jipijka'm, the Great-Horned Serpent. Ursula Johnson says incorporating traditional Mi’kmaq ...

Rebecca Knockwood has been re-elected as chief of Fort Folly First Nation in New Brunswick. Knockwood received 43 votes while her lone opponent, Hanford Nye, received 24 votes in the band election ...