Rose Basque recalls when her late husband, William Basque, wrote the poem, Sma’knis, back in 1992. She said he had trouble going to sleep one night. “He said, ‘Oh my God. My mind is going really fast.

New Brunswick employs the services of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to deliver security services as an alternative to provincial police./Photo by Serge Gouin, RCMP; contributed by Gazette First ...

Lawyer Michael McDonald, left, with Mi'kmaw fishermen Logan Pierro-Howe, Leon Knockwood and James Nevin outside of the courthouse in Digby, N.S., on Sept. 1, 2022/Photo by Stephen Brake A trial ...

Families in Nova Scotia who plan on participating in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will now have a specialized support team to help them through the process ...

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 ...

Mi’kmaq author Theresa Meuse has written a book aimed at teaching children about the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The book is titled, L’nuk: The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. In it, Meuse, 58, explains ...

A group that took part in a water ceremony in Sydney, N.S. march towards Membertou First Nation on Sunday/Photo by Stephen Brake More than hundred people gathered in Membertou First Nation, N.S.

The lawyer (from this site) representing three Mi’kmaw women challenging a proposed permanent court injunction filed by the Alton Natural Gas Storage Project wants all current work at the site to stop ...

Mi’kmaw leaders are accusing Fishery and Oceans Canada, or DFO, of systemic racism after two Mi’kmaw fishermen from Unama’ki (Cape Breton) were forced to walk along the highway at night without their ...

Jeremy Dutcher holds up a piece of red paper to the camera near the end of my interview with him via Zoom. The paper reads “Woliwon,” which means thank you in the Wolastoqey language, and we spend a ...

Matthew Cope, 36, aboard his lobster boat, Mystique Lady, in Digby, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell ...

Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters in southwestern Nova Scotia say they feel harassed by non-Indigenous harvesters for practicing their treaty right to earning a moderate livelihood by setting lobster traps ...