With just a few days left to determine the tight provincial elections race in New Brunswick, First Nations communities cast their ballots with one common demand: a government open to dialogue. As ...

The Sipekne’katik Band in Nova Scotia plans to take its appeal of the Alton Gas storage project to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. “Yes, we’re filing an appeal,” Sipekne’katik Band Chief Rufus Copage ...

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 ...

Mi’kmaq multimedia artist Alan Syliboy can now add published author to his list of many talents. Syliboy, from the Millbrook First Nation in Nova Scotia, has written and illustrated his first book ...

Brendan Mitchell was elected chief of Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Band Oct. 23/Photo courtesy Twitter.com/PaulAntleNL. The Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation Band in ...

Former NSNWA president Cheryl Maloney, right, has filed a human rights complaint against Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil/Photos by Stephen Brake The former president of the Nova Scotia Native Women ...

Agnes Gould is looking forward to sharing her sister’s story to commissioners with the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, or MMIWG, next week in Membertou, N.S. “I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stuart Knockwood joined the RCMP in the mid-1990s because he wanted to do something about the high rates of suicides in First Nation communities. In particular, Knockwood, was upset and angry that two ...