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Shelby Sappier, aka Beaatz, is nominated for a 2018 ECMA for Indigenous Artist of the Year/Photo contributed by Shelby Sappier Editor’s Note: This is the third profile of artists nominated for an East ...
Ursula Johnson, Interpreter at Kejimkujik National Park, creates a puppet based on Mi'kmaq legend about Jipijka'm, the Great-Horned Serpent. Ursula Johnson says incorporating traditional Mi’kmaq ...
Hugh Akagi thought about the future of the Wabanaki Confederacy while the partial eclipse was happening Monday afternoon. The chief of the Passamaquoddy people in Canada had travelled from his home in ...
A symposium is taking place on the Membertou First Nation in Sydney, N.S. to examine ways for all levels of government to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action. The three ...
George Marshall hopes the CRTC approves Potlotek First Nation's application to run a community radio station/Photo by Stephen Brake Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia is hoping to become the latest ...
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 ...
Rap/Hip-Hop musical acts dominate the Aboriginal Artist of the Year category at the East Coast Music Awards this year. The nominees include rap group City Natives and rappers Tristan Grant and Kam ...
The Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr. Prosecution has been completely digitized and uploaded onto the Nova Scotia Public Archives website/Photo by Stephen Brake The complete archive of a ...
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 ...
The Kji-Keptin of the Mi’kmaq Grand Council, or Santé Mawio’mi, says Mi’kmaw families and communities need to become more politically active and speak out in order to protect the Mi’kmaw Nation’s ...
Hip-hop artist Wally Bernard says his older brother encouraged him to take part in the 2015 Aboriginal Youth Songwriting Camp last weekend. “It’s something you should do,” Bernard recalls. “Try it out ...
Sitting in her home in Millbrook First Nation near Truro, N.S., Natalie Gloade looks at a picture of her mother hanging on her wall. “It’s like she’s looking at me, smiling,” Gloade says. “I know that ...