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August 2012

Community

Wejikesiek: Is It Time to Exercise Our Mi’kmaq Jurisdiction over the Moose Hunt?

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In September 1988, after years of denial and interference by governments in the Mi’kmaq customary hunting practices, the late Grand Chief Donald Marshall proclaimed that Continue Reading →

Culture

The next time this happens it’ll be 2025

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Aboriginal Day Live & Celebration is this upcoming National Aboriginal Day! National Aboriginal Day will forever be on June 21, but this is the first Continue Reading →

Culture

Grand Chief(s) Denny Gathering

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Dear Editor: The family of the late Grand Chief(s) Denny will be having their 2nd annual family gathering on July 19th & 20th, 2014 at Continue Reading →

Community, Legal

Report highlights need to hold government and police accountable for failing Indigenous women

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In a report, the RCMP provided further substantiation to its conclusion, made public earlier this month, that 1,017 Indigenous women and girls were murdered between Continue Reading →

Community, Youth

Elephant thoughts come to LSK

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When Erik Koopman rolled into the parking lot of LSK School hauling a 600-pound trailer full of weird and wacky science stuff and a few Continue Reading →

Culture

HRH Prince Charles Visit to PEI

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Dear Editor: I read with interest the schedule for Prince Charles visit to PEI In May, as provided by Hon. Premier Robert Ghiz. All major Continue Reading →

Community

A Tribute to My Brother, Chief Lawrence Paul, an Innovator.

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Chief Lawrence, the 10th of fourteen children, and nine of my sisters and brothers were born in New Brunswick, I and four of my sisters Continue Reading →

Community

Spring has sprung at LSK…

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Is anyone as tired of this, damp weather as I am? Where are the warm days? I am ready for them… now! With all the Continue Reading →

Obituaries

Mi’kmaq Chiefs Offer Condolences to the Family of Chief Lawrence Paul

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The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs offered condolences today to the family and friends of former Chief Lawrence Paul and to the entire community Continue Reading →

Community

APC Expresses Condolences to Family & Friends of Chief Lawrence Paul

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Dartmouth – All 37 APC Chiefs wish to express their deepest sympathy in the loss of a fellow leader Lawrence Paul of Millbrook First Nation. Continue Reading →

Sports

Bronze medal at the CAWC

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I would like to congratulate Eskasoni’s Trevor Sanipass for capturing a bronze medal in a 105 kg class at the Canadian Arm Wrestling Championships that Continue Reading →

Business

APC Launches Critical Research on Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development

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Dartmouth – The Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat (APC) has released two volumes of research entitled Aboriginal Measures for Economic Development and Continue Reading →