In 1986, the then Grand Chief Donald Marshall Sr. proclaimed every October 1st as Treaty Day to commemorate the key role of treaties in the relationship between the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq and the Crown.

This documentary takes you on a reflective journey into the extended family of Nova Scotia’s Mi'kmaq community. Revisiting her own roots, Mi'kmaq filmmaker and mother Catherine Anne Martin ...

These settlements were a violation of Anglo-Wabanaki treaties, and armed Mi’kmaq resistance prevented their execution. However, the new Nova Scotian government made it clear that they were ...

The Indigenous Blacks & Mi'kmaq (IB&M) Initiative at the Schulich School of Law was established in 1989 to increase representation of Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq in the legal profession in order to ...

Seven Mi'kmaq First Nations in New Brunswick are taking control of their own water and wastewater systems in a new agreement signed with the federal government. Weso'tmk Samqwan Incorporated (WSI ...

A Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation store is seen in downtown Halifax on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan HALIFAX — Mi’kmaq communities in Nova Scotia will be able to open legal ...

GOLD RIVER - Some Mi’kmaq harvesters say working within Ottawa’s quotas for the contentious baby eel fishery is helping calm the tense atmosphere in their river workplaces. In the shallows of ...

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan HALIFAX — Mi’kmaq communities in Nova Scotia will be able to open legal cannabis retail stores on reserve under new provincial regulations. The Nova Scotia ...