An Honour to Veterans March took place in downtown Halifax Oct. 1 to mark the 33rd annual Mi'kmaq Treaty Day/Photo by Stephen Brake The Kji-Keptin of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council, or Santé Mawio’mi, says ...

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 ...

For the first time, a Mi’kmaw-Indigenous float will lead the 30th annual Halifax Pride Parade on July 22. John R. Sylliboy, co-founder of the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance that submitted the float, was ...

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 ...

The two candidates running for chief in the upcoming Pictou Landing First Nation election say they want to move their community forward with more economic development initiatives. The current chief, ...

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 ...

Families in Nova Scotia who plan on participating in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will now have a specialized support team to help them through the process ...

February 20-21: Dartmouth Provincial Court Daniel Francis, 45, from Pictou Landing First Nation Trent Francis, 33, from Pictou Landing First Nation A two-day trial got underway for Daniel Francis and ...

A woman from the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia has been charged in connection with the death of a man from the Sipekne’katik First Nation. Adria Gloade, 37, is charged with being accessory ...

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Catherine Benton is the first Mi’kmaw woman judge in Nova Scotia. Benton, a lawyer with Nova Scotia Legal Aid, was appointed to the provincial and family court on January 23. She is the second Mi’kmaq ...