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Loretta Saunders’ sister upset with killer appealing conviction
Delilah Saunders, left, and her sister, Loretta, in an updated photo. Delilah is upset one of her sister's killers is appealing her conviction/Photo contributed by Delilah Saunders The sister of slain ...
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Mi’kmaq culture
A new art gallery that will showcase both Mi’kmaq artifacts and contemporary Mi’kmaq art has officially opened in Liverpool, N.S. The Sipuke’l Gallery, owned and operated by the Acadia First Nation, ...
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History of the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Summer Games
Robert Bernard, 3rd from left in back row, was the pitcher for the Whycocomagh Warriors when his team won 1st place at the 1985 Nova Scotia Indian Summer Games/Photo by Micmac News archives Robert ...
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Former NSNWA President files human rights complaint against NS Aboriginal Affairs Minister
Former NSNWA president Cheryl Maloney, right, has filed a human rights complaint against Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil/Photos by Stephen Brake The former president of the Nova Scotia Native Women ...
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An interview with Rebecca Thomas, Halifax’s poet laureate
Rebecca Thomas, 31, is Halifax's poet laureate until April 2018/Photo by Stephen Brake When Halifax Regional Municipality named Rebecca Thomas it’s poet laureate for 2016-2018, she became the first Mi ...
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Bear River First Nation
Mi’kmaw poet and storyteller shalan joudry says she was inspired to write her play, KOQM, when she noticed the town of Annapolis Royal’s plans in 2021 to celebrate 400 years of the signing of the […] ...
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American eel
A Mi’kmaw fisherman from Nova Scotia is seeking permission from a provincial court judge to challenge fishery offences against him on constitutional grounds. Cory Francis, 53, from the Acadia First ...
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45 Indigenous youth sailing across Atlantic Ocean to France
45 Indigenous youth left port in Halifax Aug. 1 aboard the Dutch tall ship, Gulden Leeuw/Photo by Stephen Brake A group of Indigenous youth from across Canada are currently sailing across the Atlantic ...
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New Brunswick Mi’kmaw leader wants physician to apologize for ‘racist’ note
Social worker Maxine Ginnish posted a photo of the sign at Dr. Carter's office on Facebook/Photo contributed by Maxine Ginnish A Mi’kmaw leader in New Brunswick wants an apology from a doctor in ...
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Family members of missing, murdered women contribute moccasin vamps to art exhibit at MSVU
Walking With Our Sisters is a commemoration art exhibition that remembers missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls/Photo by Stephen Brake Agnes Gould said she was overwhelmed with emotion when ...
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Sentencing of former Sipekne’katik Band Finance Director adjourned until Oct. 28
Lawyer Luke Craggs and Jeffrey Hayes leave the courtroom June 16 after a jury found Hayes guilty in theft, fraud trial/Photo by Stephen Brake The sentencing of a Halifax man convicted of stealing and ...
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Former chief denies he approved transfer of band funds to accounts controlled by former finance director
Sipekne'katik Councillor Jerry F. Sack testified in the Jeff Hayes fraud trial June 2, 2016/Photo by Stephen Brake The former chief of the Sipekne’katik Band said in court Thursday that he never ...