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New Brunswick elections: New revenue sharing agreements for First Nations on the table
Natoaganeg (Eel Ground) First Nation is one of five Indigenous communities that signed new funding agreements with the province after the termination of a 29-year-old deal./Government of New Brunswick ...
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Finding the way Forward exhibit unveiled at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre
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 ...
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Band never authorized commission payments to Hayes, councillor testifies
Sipekne'katik Band Councillor Thomas J. Howe testified Wednesday in Jeff Hayes fraud trial/Photo by Stephen Brake Sipekne’katik Band chief and council never authorized a plan to pay the band’s finance ...
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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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Memorial set up to mourn discovery of remains of 215 children who attended B.C. residential school
Orange ribbons and teddy bears tied to a guardrail near the former site of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School/Photo by Stephen Brake Teddy bears, flowers and orange ribbons were tied to the ...
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Mi’kmaq leaders, Nova Scotia Government commit to long-term plan to treaty education
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Eskasoni Chief Leroy Denny and Millbrook Chief Bob Gloade sign MOU on treaty education/Photo by Stephen Brake The Nova Scotia government has signed a memorandum of ...
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Chief Michael 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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NB Indian Summer Games underway in Eel Ground First Nation
Host team Eel Ground First Nation marches into Miriamich Civic Centre during opening ceremony for the 2016 New Brunswick Indian Summer Games/Photo by Stephen Brake More than 1,400 Mi’kmaq and Maliseet ...
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Great-great-grandsons of last Mi’kmaw hereditary chief to give presentation about him in Halifax
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 ...
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Blackstock says Mi’kmaw Family & Children’s Services of NS underfunded
Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, was the keynote speaker at the annual general assembly of Mi'kmaw Family and Children's Services of ...
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Mi’kmaw Family & Children’s Services “ecstatic” with human rights ruling
The executive director of the Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services in Nova Scotia welcomes a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling that found the federal government discriminated against indigenous ...