Rebecca Knockwood has been re-elected as chief of Fort Folly First Nation in New Brunswick. Knockwood received 43 votes while her lone opponent, Hanford Nye, received 24 votes in the band election ...

Former Prime Minister Paul Martin speaks to group at the treaty education public forum in Halifax Monday/Photo by Stephen Brake More Nova Scotians need to learn their shared treaty history with ...

Two Indigenous candidates from Atlantic Canada are heading to the House of Commons following Monday’s federal election. In Nova Scotia, Liberal party candidate Jaime Battiste was elected to represent ...

Bernadette Marshall says it has always been her dream to have a centre just for Mi’kmaw women in Nova Scotia. Now, the president of the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association says that dream will ...

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 ...

Catherine Benton is the first Mi’kmaw woman judge in Nova Scotia. Benton, a lawyer with Nova Scotia Legal Aid, was appointed to the provincial and family court on January 23. She is the second Mi’kmaq ...

The crown will present final arguments to the jury in the fraud trial of former Sipekne’katik Finance Director Jeffrey Cecil Hayes in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax June 13. Crown attorneys ...