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A panel of mostly Indigenous writers and artists challenged journalists and writers to be more respectful to grieving families of their missing and murdered. “The lives that victims lead, there is a ...
AJ Francis (left) is Chief Andrea Paul's only challenger in the upcoming Pictou Land First Nation election Nov. 26/Photos contributed The two candidates running for chief in the upcoming Pictou ...
Terrence Augustine said his first week of lobster fishing under his treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood from the fishery was rough. He said non-Indigenous commercial fishermen cut the lines ...
An award-winning film by a Nova Scotia Indigenous filmmaker is being screened in Toronto for a week starting Friday. North Mountain, a 2015 thriller written and directed by Bretten Hannam, will be ...
Mi’kmaw activist Elizabeth Marshall says Kluscap Mountain in Cape Breton, N.S. is sacred and should remain protected from any mining activity. “That’s where our people go to do fasts. That’s where our ...
Former United States Marine Corps Sergeant Mike Stephens described Saturday’s Remembrance Day service in Millbrook First Nation, N.S. as humbling. “My grandfathers were WWI and WWII veterans. To be ...
More stories of pain, survival and seeking justice were heard on Day 2 of public hearings with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Membertou, N.S. Tuesday.
Rap/Hip-Hop musical acts dominate the Aboriginal Artist of the Year category at the East Coast Music Awards this year.
For lawyer, writer and Indigenous activist Patricia Doyle-Bedwell, Dec. 8, 2015, was a day filled with excitement and joy. She had just heard the news of the federal government’s plan to launch a ...
Sipekne'katik Chief Rufus Copage testified June 8, 2016 in fraud trial of Jeffrey Cecil Hayes/Photo by Stephen Brake The current chief of the Sipekne’katik Band confirmed he was part of the interview ...
The mother of a Mi’kmaw teen who was assaulted at a high school in Milford, N.S. is upset that school officials separated Mi’kmaw students from the rest of the student body following the incident on [ ...
A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia denies he is blocking employees with Alton Natural Gas Storage Project Inc. from accessing company facilities along the Shubenacadie River near ...