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Mi’kmaq artist Alan Syliboy publishes book, The Thundermaker
Mi’kmaq multimedia artist Alan Syliboy can now add published author to his list of many talents. Syliboy, from the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia, has written and illustrated his first book ...
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Photo Essay: 2010 Re-enactment of Grand Chief Membertou’s baptism
On June 24, 1610, Grand Chief Membertou and 21 members of his immediate family were baptized into the Catholic religion at Port Royal, N.S. The event is important to the Mi’kmaq because it marked an ...
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Former Sipekne’katik finance director gets 2 years in prison for fraud, theft
Jeffrey Cecil Hayes, right, with his lawyer, Luke Craggs, centre, arrive at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax for his sentencing hearing/Photo by Stephen Brake The former Director of Finance for ...
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Union of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq
A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell fish because he is a direct descendant of the Mi’kmaw Grand Chief who signed one of the Peace [… ...
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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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Former NSNWA president says harassment complaint against AFN vice-chief caused emotional, financial stress
Then NSNWA president Cheryl Maloney speaks during the welcoming ceremony of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry's community hearings in Membertou, N.S. on Oct. 29, 2017/Photo ...
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Sydney-Victoria
Two Indigenous candidates from Atlantic Canada are heading to the House of Commons following Monday’s federal election. In Nova Scotia, Liberal party candidate Jaime Battiste was elected to represent ...
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First Nations Financial Transparency Act
Nine First Nations in Atlantic Canada have missed the July 31 deadline to post online yearly financial audits and salaries for their chiefs and councils as required under the First Nations Financial ...
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Sipekne’katik chief testifies he sat on committee that hired Hayes as finance director
Sipekne'katik Chief Rufus Copage testified June 8, 2016 in fraud trial of Jeffrey Cecil Hayes/Photo by Stephen Brake The current chief of the Sipekne’katik Band confirmed he was part of the interview ...
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Chief Mike Sack
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 ...
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Patty Musgrave
Residents in Moncton, N.B. woke up on Canada Day to find several posters of old photographs of Mi’kmaw people glued to city property. Patty Musgrave, who lives and works in Moncton, says she noticed ...
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Amelia Reimer
Agnes Gould is looking forward to sharing her sister’s story to commissioners with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, or MMIWG, next week in Membertou, N.S. “I ...