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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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.

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 ...

Pamela Marie Fillier says she would ask her daughter what she wanted to do when she grew up, and Hilary would say, “I don’t know, mom. I’m still a kid.” Hilary Bonnell was a “regular teenager” who was ...

Former AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine, second from left in front, is named in a lawsuit filed by the Sipekne'katik Band/Photo by Stephen Brake A former Assembly of First Nations National Chief is ...

Michelle Glasgow is the first female chief of Sipekne'katik First Nation in Nova Scotia, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake Michelle Glasgow says she is still in shock at becoming the first woman to be ...