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Protecting Mi’kmaq Petroglyphs in Bedford, Kejimkujik National Park
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 ...
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All documents of the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution now available online
The Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution has been completely digitized and uploaded onto the Nova Scotia Public Archives website/Photo by Stephen Brake The complete archive of a ...
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Judge Timothy Landry
A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has reserved his decision in a court case that involves the treaty right to fish to earn a moderate livelihood. Leon Knockwood, 27, James Nevin, 38, and Logan ...
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Mi’kmaq culture important to Kejimkujik’s Storytelling Festival
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 ...
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“We can’t use our treaty rights to fish.” Mi’kmaw fishermen upset with fines following sentencing circle for fishery offences
A sentencing cirlcle was held for Zachery Nicholas, left, and his father, William Nicholas, in Pictou Landing First Nation, N.S. on Dec. 8, 2023/Photo by Stephen Brake Two Mi’kmaw fishermen from the ...
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City Natives win 2016 ECMA for Aboriginal Recording of the Year
City Native's (from left) Gearl Francis, Brandon Arnold, Shelby Sappier and Blake Francis show off their third ECMA award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year/Photo by Stephen Brake City Natives have ...
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Moderate livelihood treaty right at centre of fishery trial in Nova Scotia
Lawyer Michael McDonald, left, with Mi'kmaw fishermen Logan Pierro-Howe, Leon Knockwood and James Nevin outside of the courthouse in Digby, N.S., on Sept. 1, 2022/Photo by Stephen Brake A trial ...
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Nova Scotia NDP leader says fish-buying regulations can change to accommodate moderate livelihood treaty right
NDP Leader Gary Burrill, left, Liberal Party Leader Iain Rankin, centre, and Progressive Conservative Party Leader Tim Houston/Photos by Stephen Brake The leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic ...
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Leonard Paul shows respect for nature through painting
Mi’kmaq artist Leonard Paul has been drawing since he was three years old. His earliest childhood memory is of his mother coming home with a colouring book for him. “I can remember being on the ...
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Saint Mary’s University, Mi’kmaq launch new website of Mi’kmaw names of places in Nova Scotia
Trudy Sable, left, and Bernie Francis announce the launch of "Ta’n Weji-sqalia’tiek: Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas" during Mi'kmaq Treaty Day Oct. 1/Photo by Stephen Brake A new interactive ...
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Next step for Sipekne’katik lobster harvesters in moderate livelihood fishery is selling catch
Crew members aboard the boat, The Lady Carol 1, remove lobster from traps before measuring the lobster and banding their claws/Photo by Stephen Brake Terrence Augustine said his first week of lobster ...
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Band members have more questions than answers in proposed 1919 land claim deal
Jennifer Denny, left, and Teresa Marshall examine land in Sambro, N.S. that's part of the 1919 land claim deal/Photo by Stephen Brake Several members of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia have ...