by Jaime Battiste, Citizenship Coordinator, KMKNO
(L-R standing) Jaime Battiste, Eric Zchiele, Kerry Prosper, Annie Johnson, Grand Keptin Antle Denny, Charlie Joe Dennis, Allison Bernard Jr.. (Sitting) Ernest Johnson.
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 the Mi’kmaq had a Right to hunt moose. Mi’kmaw hunters, equipped with harvester identification cards that were issued by the Mi’kmaq Grand Council, began to proudly exercise that Right, all knowing and understanding that this authority stemme ...
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