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.
Lawyer Luke Craggs and Jeffrey Hayes leave the courtroom June 16 after a jury found Hayes guilty in theft, fraud trial/Photo by Stephen Brake The sentencing of a Halifax man convicted of stealing and ...
An Honour to Veterans March took place in downtown Halifax Oct. 1 to mark the 33rd annual Mi'kmaq Treaty Day/Photo by Stephen Brake The Kji-Keptin of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council, or Santé Mawio’mi, says ...
Scientists and researchers have completed six years of study in Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia to determine if the polluted effluent being pumped into nearby Boat Harbour is making ...
Paul (PJ) Prosper was re-elected Chief of Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation on Nov. 24./Photo by Stephen Brake Paul (PJ) Prosper has been elected to serve a third term as chief of Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation in ...
A two-day trial got underway for Daniel Francis and Trent Francis in Dartmouth Provincial Court on fishery obstruction charges. Both men, who are members of the Pictou Landing First Nation near New ...
Brad Firth, also known as Caribou Legs, is running across Canada to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women/Photo by Stephen Brake A Gwich’in runner from Vancouver has brought his cross-country ...
Three Indigenous groups in New Brunswick have launched separate legal actions against the provincial and federal governments. The Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey First Nations are pursuing a title case and ...
Jeffrey Cecil Hayes, right, with his lawyer, Luke Craggs, centre, arrive at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax for his sentencing hearing/Photo by Stephen Brake The former Director of Finance for ...
City Native's (from left) Gearl Francis, Brandon Arnold, Shelby Sappier and Blake Francis show off their third ECMA award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year/Photo by Stephen Brake City Natives have ...
When Donna Morris looks at the Mi’kmaq petroglyphs at Kejimkujik National Park, she sees history. “There’s a picture of a caribou. There’s a picture of a little missionary man that goes back to the ...