Leon Robinson and his son, Leon Knockwood/Photo by Stephen Brake A young Mi’kmaw man from Nova Scotia is vowing to fight fishery charges against him like his father did 20 years ago. Leon Knockwood, ...

Families in Nova Scotia who plan on participating in the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will now have a specialized support team to help them through the process ...

Jeremy Bouchard and Robert Winogron, lawyers with the law firm, Gowling WLG, speak at the APC All Chiefs and Councils Assembly on Sept. 24/Photo by Stephen Brake First Nation leaders in the Maritimes ...

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 ...

Dan Christmas, 60, from Membertou First Nation, N.S. was appointed as a non-partisan senator Oct. 27/Photo by Stephen Brake Dan Christmas, who has devoted most of his career working to better the ...

A Nova Scotia provincial court judge has reserved his decision in a court case that involves the treaty right to fish to earn a moderate livelihood. Leon Knockwood, 27, James Nevin, 38, and Logan ...

The leader that represents the Passamaquoddy people in Canada says they’re moving closer to receiving status by the Canadian government. “Well it seems like it is coming to fruition,” Chief Hugh Akagi ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Membertou First Nation is the latest Mi’kmaw community to withdrawn from the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs and the Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office. In a news release issued on ...