Chief Patricia Bernard of Madawaska-Maliseet First Nation, N.B. Aug. 27/Photo contributed. Patricia Bernard has been re-elected as chief of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Bernard received 210 ...
Sipekne'katik First Nation fishermen drop lobster traps in St. Mary's Bay near Saulnierville, N.S. in Sept. 2020/Photo by Stephen Brake The Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia is suing the ...
AJ Francis (left) is Chief Andrea Paul's only challenger in the upcoming Pictou Land First Nation election Nov. 26/Photos contributed The two candidates running for chief in the upcoming Pictou ...
There were three fishery-related court cases in Nova Scotia provincial courts this week. All of them involve Mi’kmaw fishermen challenging fishery-related charges against them on constitutional ...
Mi'kmaw Family and Children's Services's office building in Indian Brook First Nation, N.S./Photo by Stephen Brake An Indigenous agency that provides child protection and family support services to ...
Morley Googoo speaks with reporters outside of court after a judge acquitted him of sexual assault on July 8, 2022/Photo by Stephen Brake A former Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw chief and Assembly of First ...
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 ...
The former chief of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia is facing assault charges in two separate cases. Michael Patrick Sack, 42, is charged with aggravated assault for allegedly wounding ...
Jennifer Denny, left, and Teresa Marshall examine land in Sambro, N.S. that's part of the 1919 land claim deal/Photo by Stephen Brake Several members of the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia have ...
Sipekne'katik Band Councillor Thomas J. Howe testified Wednesday in Jeff Hayes fraud trial/Photo by Stephen Brake Sipekne’katik Band chief and council never authorized a plan to pay the band’s finance ...
New Brunswick employs the services of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to deliver security services as an alternative to provincial police./Photo by Serge Gouin, RCMP; contributed by Gazette First ...
Editor’s note: Several of these court cases have been updated since this list was initially published on Sept. 25, 2023. Ku’ku’kwes News has been tracking the court cases of 54 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters ...