The former chief of the Sipekne’katik Band said he never led the band’s former finance director to believe he had more authority than band council to approve financial matters. Jerry F. Sack, 54, took ...

Three Indigenous groups in New Brunswick have launched separate legal actions against the provincial and federal governments. The Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey First Nations are pursuing a title case and ...

Terrellyn Fearn is the Director of Health with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls/Photo by Stephen Brake Debra Ginnish, who’s niece was killed in 2004, has a ...

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 ...

Inuk writer Delilah Saunders is relieved a book of poetry which contained graphic details about her sister’s murder has been pulled by the publisher. Book*Hug has pulled the book, “Who Took My Sister” ...

Sitting in her home in Millbrook First Nation near Truro, N.S., Natalie Gloade looks at a picture of her mother hanging on her wall. “It’s like she’s looking at me, smiling,” Gloade says. “I know that ...

Mi'kmaw Family and Children's Services's office building in Indian Brook First Nation, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake An Indigenous agency that provides child protection and family support services to ...

Matthew Cope, 36, aboard his lobster boat, Mystique Lady, in Digby, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell ...

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Trevor Sanipass holds up a photo of his great-great-grandfather, Mi'kmaq Grand Chief John Denny, Jr./Photo by Stephen Brake Trevor Sanipass wants everyone to know about John Denny, Jr., the last ...

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.

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 ...