Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,
The Mi’kmaw phrase of the week is…
“Piteway”
🗣 (beh-deh-way)
Meaning: Tea 🫖
In the News
- New national media association for Indigenous journalists launches – YouTube
- Excitement builds for proposed wind turbine project in Kinkora area – CBC News
- How the Wejipek Wind Project would benefit P.E.I. homes and a First Nation – CBC News
- Biden grants activist Leonard Peltier clemency to finish life sentence at home – CBC News
- The North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame Announces 2025 Inductees – Native News
- Annie Mae Pictou Aquash’s daughter alleges Leonard Peltier was complicit in her murder – APTN News
- Enforcing the singing of God Save the King doesn’t sit well with Pine Creek First Nation member – APTN News
Politics & Law
- How a vast Indigenous art fraud was cracked in Canada – Seattle Times
- AFN national chief writes open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump – APTN News
- Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs announces 4 candidates to run for leadership – CBC News
- Nova Scotia Indigenous Liberal MP submits application for Liberal leadership – APTN News
- Mark Carney secures four more key endorsements in race to become Liberal leader – City News
- National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak Urges Justice for St. Anne’s Survivors Ahead of Court Hearing – Nation Talk
- ‘We Need to Take Care of Our Own Children’: Inside the fight for Indigenous jurisdiction over child services in Canada – APTN News
Business, Finance & Economics
- AMC Demands Action on Rising Costs Impacting First Nations – Manitoba Chiefs
- Federal government pitches $260M plan to increase First Nation fishing access – CBC News
- DFO budgets $259.5 million for new fishery access for First Nations in Maritimes – Chronicle Herald
- Claims Period for the First Nations Child and Family Services Jordan’s Principle Settlement – Nation Talk
- Government of Canada invests more than $2.8 million in cultural infrastructure in New Brunswick – Yahoo Finance
Education, Health & Culture
- New children’s book by Mi’kmaq author Richard Pellissier-Lush – CTV News
- Educational Resources: Indigenous Peoples in Canada – Canadian Encyclopedia
- Full circle: Stolen drum finds its way back to North Saanich man – Oak Bay News
- UNB Saint John hosts Indigenous Film Festival for anniversary of 94 Calls to Action – CBC News
- Statement from the Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health on Nicotine Vaping – Newswire
- Family wants funeral company held accountable, saying loved one was cremated too soon – APTN News
- Eskasoni-based artist Nancy Oakley endorses Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design’s marketing initiatives – Saltwire
- National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak Calls on Canada to Honour K-12 Education Transformation Commitments – Nation Talk
- Sons of Membertou Announce 30th Anniversary Reissue and First-Ever Digital Release of Wapna’kik: The People of the Dawn – Shore Fire Media
Environment, Science & Technology
- Mi’kmaq Build Comprehensive Elver Plan and Share with DFO – Nation Talk
- B.C. First Nations leader reverses stance on Northern Gateway pipeline after Trump – CTV News
- North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council signs MoU with Westinghouse for SMR – ReNew Canada
- Isle Haute protected 24 years after federal government put Bay of Fundy island up for sale – Saltwire
- Indigenous communities in B.C. and California promote cultural burns for disaster mitigation – CBC News
- Alberta First Nation voices ’grave concern’ over Kevin O’Leary’s proposed $70B AI data centre – CBC News
- Indigenous climate advocates say tailings spills study confirms what they already know – Alberta Native News
- Indigenous community wants to sit down with N.S. premier to discuss green energy development plan – CTV News