Terrellyn Fearn is the Director of Health with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls/Photo by Stephen Brake Debra Ginnish, who’s niece was killed in 2004, has a ...

Jasmine Labillois is one of two co-chairs of Mi'kmaq Maliseet Atlantic Youth Council/Photo by Stephen Brake Indigenous youth need to take their health seriously if they want to do well in their ...

Trevor Sanipass holds up a photo of his great-great-grandfather, Mi'kmaq Grand Chief John Denny, Jr./Photo by Stephen Brake Trevor Sanipass wants everyone to know about John Denny, Jr., the last ...

Rowena Sharpe was a “true friend to the whole community,” her older sister Arlene Brooks remembers. Rowena was a member of St. Mary’s First Nation in New Brunswick. She was an “amazing” and optimistic ...

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 ...

Lennox Island First Nation Chief Darlene Bernard, left, and Abegweit First Nation Chief Roderick Gould/Photos by Stephen Brake and AFN The Assembly of First Nations has voted to create a new ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Matthew Cope, 36, aboard his lobster boat, Mystique Lady, in Digby, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw fisherman says he has a constitutionally protected treaty right to catch and sell ...

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.

Mi’kmaq author Theresa Meuse has written a book aimed at teaching children about the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The book is titled, L’nuk: The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada. In it, Meuse, 58, explains ...