Kathleen Ivaluarjuk Merritt said it was a dream come true when her band, Iva, was invited to perform at this year’s Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Merritt, who is ...

A panel of mostly Indigenous writers and artists challenged journalists and writers to be more respectful to grieving families of their missing and murdered. “The lives that victims lead, there is a ...

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 ...

Terrence Augustine said his first week of lobster fishing under his treaty right to earn a moderate livelihood from the fishery was rough. He said non-Indigenous commercial fishermen cut the lines ...

Agnes Gould said she was overwhelmed with emotion when she spoke about her missing sister, Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes, during a ceremony prior to the opening of an art exhibition to commemorate missing ...

Assembly of First Nations Vice-Chief Morley Googoo said he got the idea to hold a celebration gathering for both Mi’kmaw and Acadian people during a walk through Grand Pré National Historic Site at ...

Mi’kmaw activist Elizabeth Marshall says Kluscap Mountain in Cape Breton, N.S. is sacred and should remain protected from any mining activity. “That’s where our people go to do fasts. That’s where our ...

I didn’t learn anything about the Indian residential school system when I went to school in Nova Scotia in the 1970s and ’80s. In fact, I didn’t learn much about aboriginal history and culture in […] ...

A fire that destroyed a lobster pound in Saint Bernard, N.S. on Christmas Day is under investigation by both the RCMP and local fire officials. “We do feel the fire is suspicious,” RCMP spokeswoman ...

An award-winning film by a Nova Scotia Indigenous filmmaker is being screened in Toronto for a week starting Friday. North Mountain, a 2015 thriller written and directed by Bretten Hannam, will be ...

Urban Paul says he experienced a lot of racism after he and his mother moved from the Mi’kmaq community of Eskasoni, N.S. to Halifax when he was five years old. “Some things were hard to […] ...