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 ...

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 ...

An angry mob of non-Indigenous lobster fishermen trapped two Mi’kmaw fishermen inside a lobster pound in southwestern Nova Scotia late Tuesday evening. According to Jason Marr, a Mi’kmaw lobster ...

Danielle Cyr is a co-author of Nta'tugwaqanminen - Our Story: Evolution of the Gespe'gewa'gi Mi'kmaq/Photo by Stephen Brake Danielle Cyr, a specialist in Algonquian languages and comparative ...

Daniel Francis, centre, with supporters during a court appearance at Dartmouth Provincial Court in March 2023/Photo by Stephen Brake There were three fishery-related court cases in Nova Scotia ...

Victoria Henneberry, represented herself in appealing hearing Apr. 12, 2017. She wants the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal to overturn her second-degree murder conviction/Photo provided by the Executive ...

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 ...

Michelle Glasgow is the first female chief of Sipekne'katik First Nation in Nova Scotia, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake Michelle Glasgow says she is still in shock at becoming the first woman to be ...

Indigenous leaders in the Maritimes will decide in April whether it will move forward with a plan to create an Atlantic First Nations Water Authority. The Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nation ...

Sipekne'katik fishermen Lance Bernard, left, and David Balfour haul lobster traps from St. Mary's Bay on Sept. 25, 2020/Photo by Stephen Brake The Sipekne’katik First Nation is suing the Nova Scotia ...

Urban Paul says he experienced a lot of racism after he and his mother moved from the Mi’kmaq community of Eskasoni, N.S. to Halifax when he was five years old. “Some things were hard to […] ...

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 ...