Eight Mi’kmaw childen and youth received hands-on welding training in the centre of their community last week. Elsipogtog First Nation, about 90 kilometres north of Moncton, hosted a week-long… Read more “Mi’kmaw youth learn some new skills at welding camp”
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Former N.B. attorney general tapped by Indian day school survivors for help with resubmission fight
Some day school survivors in New Brunswick are paying $500 each to Lamrock’s Law to help them try and change their level of compensation after filing a claim,… Read more “Former N.B. attorney general tapped by Indian day school survivors for help with resubmission fight”
Elsipogtog First Nation’s 2nd Pride parade shows ‘the pride in everyone’
Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick held its second Pride parade Wednesday evening to celebrate the 2SLGBTQ community in the Mi’kmaw First Nation. Patrice Dedam took part in the Pride celebrations with… Read more “Elsipogtog First Nation’s 2nd Pride parade shows ‘the pride in everyone’”
Elsipogtog women learn skilled trades while building housing for their community
Three Mi’kmaw women are helping build a brighter future for their community of Elsipogtog First Nation, one house at a time. Olivia Gehue, Devonya Levi and Diana Augustine are carpenter apprentices and started… Read more “Elsipogtog women learn skilled trades while building housing for their community”
Lured by love of ice fishing, Inuk man learns Mi’kmaq techniques in N.B.
Venturing out onto New Brunswick’s Richbuctou River, Jordan Takkriuq and his friends were ready to learn how the Mi’kmaq ice fish. Takkriuq is Inuk from Gjoa Haven,… Read more “Lured by love of ice fishing, Inuk man learns Mi’kmaq techniques in N.B.”
L’nu artist begins beaded portrait series with elders and traditional medicines
One of the smallest Mi’kmaw communities in New Brunswick hosts a dynamic father-daughter duo. Ashley and Christopher Sanipass help ground youth culturally in their Indian Island community,… Read more “L’nu artist begins beaded portrait series with elders and traditional medicines “
Elsipogtog First Nation
Elsipogtog (pronounced El-see-buk-tuk) First Nation is a Mi’kmaq community about 91 km northwest of Moncton, New Brunswick. Known for many years as Big Cove, in 2003 the First Nation officially changed its name to… Read more “Elsipogtog First Nation”
HEROES OF 2020: Residential school survivor helps Mi’kmaq reconnect with their culture
Clark Paul is an Eskasoni hero. The 74-year-old is a residential school survivor and in the midst of a four-year battle with bladder cancer, nevertheless he is… Read more “HEROES OF 2020: Residential school survivor helps Mi’kmaq reconnect with their culture”
‘Always smiling’: Tiffany Peters remembered
I was in Fredericton when I got the news Tiffany killed herself. I knew Tiff. Not well, but I grew up with the Peters family on F street.… Read more “‘Always smiling’: Tiffany Peters remembered”
A History of Violence
Night sinks in deep. It’s August 2009; I’m 18 years old, six-foot-nothing, and brown: half-Black, half-Mi’kmaq. I’m eight beers deep, which is nothing for Kent County, New… Read more “A History of Violence”
Oscar Baker III 