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August 7, 2012

Community, Culture

Millbrook Powwow 2014 – Photos

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Business

Mi’kmaw Ironworkers at Irving Shipyard

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Representatives from Irving Shipbuilding, Walters Steel, Ironworkers Local 752, Hatch Mott MacDonald, EllisDon, and Irving Equipment gathered on August 6, 2014 to celebrate the installation Continue Reading →

Business

First-ever Aboriginal Pop-Up Dinner

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There’s a first for everything and the Right Some Good food festival is making no exceptions. They’re cooking up something that’s never been done before Continue Reading →

Business, Community

Commercial Fishery Thriving on Madawaska Maliseet First Nation

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Located adjacent to Edmundston, New Brunswick along the Trans-Canada Highway is the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Thanks to strategic business decisions to diversify and expand Continue Reading →

Health, Legal

Chiefs Strongly Support NS’s Decision on Hydraulic Fracturing

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On September 3, the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs heard firsthand, from Minister Younger and his counterparts, the Province’s decision to prohibit shale hydraulic Continue Reading →

Community

Wejikesiek: Is It Time to Exercise Our Mi’kmaq Jurisdiction over the Moose Hunt?

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In September 1988, after years of denial and interference by governments in the Mi’kmaq customary hunting practices, the late Grand Chief Donald Marshall proclaimed that Continue Reading →

Culture

The next time this happens it’ll be 2025

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Aboriginal Day Live & Celebration is this upcoming National Aboriginal Day! National Aboriginal Day will forever be on June 21, but this is the first Continue Reading →

Community, Youth

Elephant thoughts come to LSK

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When Erik Koopman rolled into the parking lot of LSK School hauling a 600-pound trailer full of weird and wacky science stuff and a few Continue Reading →

Community

A Tribute to My Brother, Chief Lawrence Paul, an Innovator.

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Chief Lawrence, the 10th of fourteen children, and nine of my sisters and brothers were born in New Brunswick, I and four of my sisters Continue Reading →

Culture, Education

Aboriginal people & the First World War

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Even though it wasn’t their fight, when the British Empire went to war in 1914, Canada’s Aboriginal People didn’t hesitate to answer the call to Continue Reading →

Education, Youth

Students Explore Career Opportunities at Inaugural Skilled Trades Fair

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On March 10, 11 and 12, more than 80 Mi’kmaw junior high and high school students from 12 Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia attended the Continue Reading →

Education

Changing Lives Through Learning

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Four adult learners are being recognized for sharing their powerful stories about how learning has changed their lives. Stephanie Paul, from Eskasoni First Nation; Mamawa Continue Reading →