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Paul (P.J.) Prosper is seeking a second term as Chief of Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation/Photo by Stephen Brake Paul (P.J.) Prosper is seeking a second term as chief of Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation in Nova Scotia.
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 ...
Left: INAC Minister Carolyn Bennett and Patty Hadju, Minister of Status of Women/Photo by Stephen Brake. Right: Mi'kmaw activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash/Photo courtesy of Facebook. The daughter of a Mi ...
Noel Joe, left, Yvonne Jones, middle, and Jaime Battiste, right are the three Indigenous candidates running in the Oct. 21 federal election/Photos contributed Three Indigenous people in Atlantic ...
Rose Basque recalls when her late husband, William Basque, wrote the poem, Sma’knis, back in 1992. She said he had trouble going to sleep one night. “He said, ‘Oh my God. My mind is going really fast.
An angry mob of non-Indigenous lobster fishermen trapped two Mi'kmaw fishermen inside a lobster pound in West Pubnico, N.S. and set a van on fire on Oct. 13/Photos courtesy of Jason Marr An angry mob ...
The Rug Hook Guild Nova Scotia unveiled its art exhibit, Finding the way Forward, at the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax, N.S. on Feb. 1, 2023/Photo by Stephen Brake Debbie Tucker and Ann ...
Bryson Syliboy is the NDP candidate for the Nova Scotia riding of Richmond in the upcoming provincial election/Photo by Stephen Brake A second Mi’kmaw person is running in the Nova Scotia election.
Mi’kmaw leaders are accusing Fishery and Oceans Canada, or DFO, of systemic racism after two Mi’kmaw fishermen from Unama’ki (Cape Breton) were forced to walk along the highway at night without their ...
Former United States Marine Corps Sergeant Mike Stephens described Saturday’s Remembrance Day service in Millbrook First Nation, N.S. as humbling. “My ...
A Mi’kmaw chief in Newfoundland and Labrador is leading an effort to bring home the skulls of two Beothuk individuals currently being stored at a Scottish museum. Mi’sel Joe, chief of Miawpukek First ...
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 ...