Mi'kmaq

Solidarity Halifax: Stop the Alton Gas Project

Jake Hubley — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 03:14:37 +0000

An analysis by Jake Hubley

K'jipuktuk (Halifax)—Eight years ago, Alton Gas—a subsidiary company of Alberta-based AltaGas ltd.—applied to the Nova Scotia government with a proposed project that would allow natural gas to be stored in underground salt caverns near the Shubenacadie River, in Alton, N.S.

Files attached to this post:

official_draft_final-_solidarity_hfx-_the_alton_gas_project.pdf

Meet your Alton Gas Team - Part 1

Miles Howe — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:31:57 +0000

Tim Church - Stakeholder Relations AKA Consultation Coordinator

Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia -- Last night's Alton Gas open house in Millbrook First Nation was a heated affair.

Exclusive: Denying legitimacy, one meeting request at a time

Miles Howe — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 17:58:45 +0000

Archived documents show mid-September 2013 meeting request from Mi'kmaq Warrior Society to Premier, over shale gas, denied

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- Through an investigation into the New Brunswick provincial archives, the Halifax Media Co-op has obtained a range of documents that shed light upon heretofore unexplored events concerning the government's response to anti-shale gas activities in 2013.

Ta’n Weji-sqalia’tiek: Mi’kmaw Place Names

Robert DeVet — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:55:56 +0000

Website explores Mi'kmaw roots in Nova Scotia landscape

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) – A wonderful new website explores the deep connection between the Mi'kmaq people and the landscape of Mi'kma'ki, the plac

Between Nations: We Are ALL Treaty People

bsichel — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:39:50 +0000

Subhead:

An evening examining the responsibilities and challenges of upholding the Peace and Friendship Treaties in Mi'kma'ki

Mon Oct 5

city:

Halifax

Venue:

Halifax Central Library (Paul O'Regan Hall)

Cost:

Free

Space Accessibiity:

Yes; No

Map link:

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Halifax+Central+Library,+5440+Spring+Garden+Rd,+Halifax,+NS+B3J+1E9/@44.6424066,-63.5750089,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4b5a22338a5b3a2d:0xfce0b8535f5c95c7

betweennationsposter-final-web2.jpg

Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1891723171053683/

In the mid-1700s Britain signed a series of Peace and Friendship treaties with the Mi'kmaq nation.

Exclusive: Military missed opportunity for peaceful end to 2013 New Brunswick fracking protests

Miles Howe — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:21:33 +0000

Internal documents show repeated Warrior Society requests for negotiating assistance denied

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- An Access to Information request has revealed that during the course of anti-shale gas protests in New Brunswick in 2013, 5th Canadian Division Support Base (CDSB) Gagetown, Eastern Canada's largest military facility, was contacted on two separate occasions by high ranking members of the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society.

"We didn't think at the time the images would be painful and upsetting."

Miles Howe — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 16:21:33 +0000

Images of bound and gagged Indigenous women make up part of Bathurst, New Brunswick, festival

Trigger Warning: The following article speaks on the topic of sexual assault.

Pjilasi Mi'kma'ki - Episode Two

Miles Howe — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:34:28 +0000

On Language and Education

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- In this episode we will be exploring language and education. The reasons why the Mi’kmaq language is in a desperate state are not mysterious. The Mi’kmaq language is threatened by the legacy of colonialism, from residential schools to the modern education curriculum.

Pjilasi Mi'kma'ki - Episode One

Editor — Fri, 22 May 2015 12:45:34 +0000

Surviving the Sixties Scoop

KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) -- Welcome to the first episode of the new bilingual Mi'kmaq/English podcast PJILASI MI'KMA'KI, which, in Mi’kmaq, means ‘Welcome to Mi’kma’ki’.

Lessons in the Language

jwcoady — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:44:06 +0000

Mi'kmaq educators start early to overcome legacy of assimilation policies

Part one of a series.

For over a century, the Canadian government's official policy was to eradicate Indigenous cultures. Through the residential school system, government agents separated First Nations' children from their families, forcing them into schools where they would be punished for speaking their mother tongues.

Showdown in Elsipogtog

Tim McSorley — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:17:00 +0000

Seven months of shale gas resistance in New Brunswick

K'JIPUKTUK (HALIFAX)—In early June, I walked with Suzanne Patles from Eskasoni First Nation and two Mi'kmaq women from Elsipogtog First Nation along Highway 126 near Harcourt, New Brunswick. People told us not to go, not to approach the seismic testing trucks; that people had been arrested earlier in the day; that there would be trouble.

SUPPORT JAILED LAND DEFENDERS: SOLIDARITY WITH MI’KMAQ WARRIORS

Tim McSorley — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:09:56 +0000

Update: If you want to write to the jailed Warriors, their addresses are at the bottom of this post.

Call the Ombudsman & Demand Humane Treatment!!

Office of the Ombudsman of New Brunswick:
Call: 1-888-465-1100
(506) 453-2789

Write: P. O. Box 6000
548 York Street
Fredericton, NB
E3B 5H1

SUPPORT JAILED LAND DEFENDERS: SOLIDARITY WITH MI’KMAQ WARRIORS

Tim McSorley — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 21:09:55 +0000

Update: If you want to write to the jailed Warriors, their addresses are at the bottom of this post.

Call the Ombudsman & Demand Humane Treatment!!

Office of the Ombudsman of New Brunswick:
Call: 1-888-465-1100
(506) 453-2789

Write: P. O. Box 6000
548 York Street
Fredericton, NB
E3B 5H1

Mi'kmaq Blockade

stimulator — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:15:28 +0000

Media Co-op reporter Miles Howe released from custody; says police trying to restrict his reporting

bsichel — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:40:21 +0000

Mi'kmaq war chief also arrested in connection with Howe

ELSIPOGTOG, NB - Media Co-op reporter Miles Howe has been released from police custody after being detained