Rebecca Knockwood has been re-elected as chief of Fort Folly First Nation in New Brunswick. Knockwood received 43 votes while her lone opponent, Hanford Nye, received 24 votes in the band election ...

Mi’kmaq Treaty Day celebrations get underway tonight with the Mi’kmaq Cultural Showcase which will pay tribute to musician, Steve Martin, who passed away in June. Martin, 60, was from the Waycobah ...

Raeesa Lalani, artistic director of the Prismatic Arts Festival, announced on Feb. 28. 2023 that Pawâkan Macbeth by Reneltta Arluk, will be a part of Neptune Theatre's 2023-24 season/Photo by Stephen ...

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are holding community hearings in Membertou First Nation, N.S. from Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2017. Approximately 40 families have ...

Judy Googoo considers Mi’kmaq quillwork a beautiful but dying art form. “I think it’s important just to keep our traditional crafts alive,” the 58-year-old from Waycobah First Nation, N.S., said.

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 ...

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.

Scientists and researchers have completed six years of study in Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia to determine if the polluted effluent being pumped into nearby Boat Harbour is making ...

The lawyer representing four Mi’kmaw lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia says all fishery charges against them should be dismissed. “We have four Mi’kmaw fishermen that were fishing under their right to ...

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.