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August 7, 2012

Culture

Doug Knockwood: Mi’kmaw Elder, Stories, Memories, Reflections

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Mi’kmaw Elder Doug Knockwood and his wife Michelle reside on Indian Brook Indian Reserve, Hants County, Nova Scotia, which is part of the Sipekne’katik Band. Continue Reading →

Culture, Education, Legal

Interesting People and Events 18

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Donald Marshall Jr: 1971: Wrongful Murder Conviction My personal tribute to a man of great courage, the late Donald Marshall Jr. The determination the late Continue Reading →

Business, Community

Anku’kamkewey (Relationship) Accord Cements Paqtnkek/Antigonish County Partnership

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As an eagle flew overhead, the cloudy skies gave way to sunshine as Chief Paul (PJ) Prosper of Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation and County of Antigonish Continue Reading →

Culture, Sports

Kjipuktuk to Host the 2020 NAIG

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Kjipuktuk (Halifax) has been chosen to host the 2020 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), which will be the largest multi-sporting event to be held in Continue Reading →

Culture

In Loving Memory of Lillian Beatrice Marshall

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September 30, 1934 ~ April 9, 2018 Lillian B. Marshall was a well known and much loved Mi’kmaw Elder from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She Continue Reading →

Business, Community

Maliseet De Viger First Nation Expanding Commercial Fishery

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The lower St. Lawrence region of Québec, a few kilometers north of Rivière-du-Loup in Cacouna and Whitworth Township, is home to the Maliseet de Viger Continue Reading →

Community, Legal

Canada Supports Indigenous Community Based Justice

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Community-based justice programs help to reduce crime, victimization and incarceration, increase community safety, and provide culturally relevant access to justice services. The Government of Canada Continue Reading →

Legal

For too long, Indigenous Peoples in Canada have had to prove their rights exist and fight to have them recognized and fully implemented. To truly Continue Reading →

Community

The Original Six Hockey In Eskasoni

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Over the past winter a local Eskasoni team Catch the Joker has been making great efforts to heighten the excitement of hockey in Eskasoni. These Continue Reading →

Culture, Education

Working Together To Repatriate Cultural Property

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MP Bill Casey Introduces Aboriginal Cultural Property Repatriation Act Bill Casey, Member of Parliament for Cumberland-Colchester, was pleased to introduce the Aboriginal Cultural Property Repatriation Continue Reading →

Education

British Colonial Governor Edward Cornwallis Statue Removed

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The following is what Robert Jackson, chief American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, had to say about genocidal behaviour: “No regime bent on exterminating another Continue Reading →

Art, Culture

Rose Michael The Artist Behind The Design Of RCMP Eagle Feathers

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There are little children everywhere playing while their mom beads the most beautiful original creations I have ever seen. They say if you support an Continue Reading →