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The first executive director of the Mi'kmaq initiative L'nuey says the ultimate goal is self-government for Mi'kmaq on P.E.I. Consultation with the community in terms of self-determination started ...
Rebecca Thomas tweeted a photo of two garden statues designed in the style of totem poles with NHL logos, asking Lawton’s Drugs why the culturally insensitive items were being sold.
Mi'gmaq-Mi'kmaq Online is the result of the efforts of several people working independently to preserve the language. Diane Mitchell, of Listuguj First Nation in Quebec, is one of them.
Members of the Sylliboy family and the Mi’kmaq community submitted a petition for the free pardon several years ago. Battiste said he sat down with McNeil in late 2015 and he agreed to the apology.
In a video that went viral, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sings The Beatles’ song “Blackbird” in her native language Mi’kmaq, or Micmac. A high school student from Nova Scotia, Canada, Stevens ...
Mi'kmaq communities in New Brunswick are once again asserting Aboriginal title to land in the province — and it's a lot more land than in the previous claim. In fact, according to a map released on ...
A Mi'kmaq name will be added to the Port-la-Joye—Fort Amherst national historic site in P.E.I., recognizing the traditional name for the site and its Indigenous history. The site will be renamed ...
One of the events organized to explore a significant theme in Rita’s works, Mi’kmaq language, was the Komqwejwi’kasikl (hieroglyphs) Birch Bark workshop last Thursday. The event was led by Michelle ...
For five weeks now, Mi'kmaq fishers in Nova Scotia have faced violent and racist attacks for exercising their treaty rights to catch lobster outside the province’s commercial season. Non ...
A signed agreement that gives Mi'kmaq communities co-management responsibilities for P.E.I. National Park and historic sites on Prince Edward Island is being hailed as a 'significant step' toward ...
Mi’kmaq writers Shanika MacEachern and her daughter, third-grader Breighlynn MacEachern (Muinji’j), explain the traumatic impact of residential schools on the Mi’kmaq community in Muinji’j Asks Why: ...
'Blackbird' Sung In Mi'kmaq Seeks To Raise Awareness Of Indigenous Language. In a video that went viral, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sings The Beatles’ song “Blackbird” in her native language ...