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Peter-Paul, who's well-known for his drumming at cultural events and sharing Mi'kmaq culture in Island classrooms, began making wigwams only a year ago, learning from a friend who had been taught ...
They were recorded entirely in the Cape Breton community of Eskasoni during June 2006, but all are based on traditional Mi'kmaq cultural beliefs that have evolved over thousands of years.
As a result of those efforts, the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor has just opened a new long-term exhibition, “Stitching Ourselves Together: Mi’kmaq Porcupine Quillwork.” The exhibition includes ...
Dozens of people, young and old, sit cross-legged around Mi’kmaq elder Mary Louise Bernard as she performs a sacred gathering song to the percussive beat of her hand drum, while the sound of her ...
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 ...
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 ...
Grant argues that many common beliefs stem from two things ... stars' of Montreal’s first hockey game: "the Kjipuktuk Mi'kmaq stick, Dartmouth's Acme skate, and a highly motivated player ...
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.
A long-simmering property rights dispute between Mi'kmaq people on Prince Edward Island and the provincial government that has landmark potential will be aired in a PEI court this week.
Last week, the Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Inc. (MTI), a group of eight Mi’kmaq communities in New Brunswick, circulated a map identifying the lands to which they say the Mi’kmaq Nation holds title, and ...
“Our grand chief was really quite sad about the fact that he was charged and wasn’t able to be successful in obtaining Mi’kmaq rights for his people,” said Jaime Battiste, the province’s ...
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