Unable to reach an agreement with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to define a moderate livelihood, one Nova Scotia First Nation has instead launched its own rights-based lobster fishery. The ...

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 ...

Virick Francis, from Eskasoni, will be attending a world cultural festival in France to demonstrate his unique Mi'kmaq basket-making/Photo by Stephen Brake A Mi’kmaw man from Eskasoni, N.S., who ...

Sipekne'katik Councillor Jerry F. Sack testified in the Jeff Hayes fraud trial June 2, 2016/Photo by Stephen Brake The former chief of the Sipekne’katik Band said in court Thursday that he never ...

A new art gallery that will showcase both Mi’kmaq artifacts and contemporary Mi’kmaq art has officially opened in Liverpool, N.S. The Sipuke’l Gallery, owned and operated by the Acadia First Nation, ...

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 group that took part in a water ceremony in Sydney, N.S. march towards Membertou First Nation on Sunday/Photo by Stephen Brake More than hundred people gathered in Membertou First Nation, N.S.

Former NSNWA president Cheryl Maloney, right, has filed a human rights complaint against Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil/Photos by Stephen Brake The former president of the Nova Scotia Native Women ...

A federal court judge has dismissed a Nova Scotia First Nation’s request for a judicial review of a 2015 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision that found it discriminated and retaliated against one ...

Urban Paul currently transferring his drawing onto a clay tile for art project," This is What I Wish You Knew."/Photo by Stephen Brake Urban Paul says he experienced a lot of racism after he and his ...

The executive director of the Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services in Nova Scotia welcomes a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling that found the federal government discriminated against indigenous ...

The National Chief for the Assembly of First Nations is calling on the federal government to stop criminalizing treaty rights and end the harassment and intimidation of Mi’kmaw fishers on the waters. ...