A Weekly Canadian Indigenous News Update from L’nuey
Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,
the Mi’kmaw word of the week is…
“Epekwitnewaq”
🗣 (eh-buh-gwid-neh-wah)
Meaning: Islanders (people of Epekwitk)
In the News
- Mi’kmaw beaders repair damage on 100-year-old relics – CBC News
- How Lennox Island celebrates St. Anne’s Sunday in 2024 – CBC News
- 8 Mi’kmaw communities take N.B. to court over title claim – APTN News
- St. Anne’s celebration evolves beyond the Lennox Island church – CBC News
- Survivors need help accessing residential school records: Senate – APTN News
- Meet the 3 Mi’kmaw women competing to be Miss Indigenous Canada – CBC News
- Mi’kmaq lay claim to more than half of province in lawsuit – The Hamilton Spectator
- Ashley Callingbull becomes first Indigenous woman to win Miss Universe Canada – APTN News
- “Shaken but not shattered,”: Millbrook FN family loses five cabins on Mniku Island to fire – Saltwire
- Crown made a ‘mockery’ of 2 treaties with First Nations for 150 years, Supreme Court rules – CBC News
- Senate report calls for Canada to compel Catholic entities to release residential school records – CBC News
Politics & Law
- Treaty Land Sharing Network Launches In Alberta – St. Albert Gazette
- ‘Embarrassing’: Yukon premier blasts Bell over service issues – APTN News
- $147.6M settles B.C. First Nation’s 131-year-old water rights claim – The Free Press
- Prince Albert Grand Council studies benefits of Indigenous-led policing – SaskToday
- Can a lake become a person in law? A B.C. First Nation wants to find out – APTN News
- Court battle against Ottawa restarts over Indian Act gender discrimination – CBC News
- Manitoba moves to transfer 100 acres of historic land to Red River Métis – APTN News
- Restoring the honour of the Crown after a breach of treaties – The Canadian Bar Association
- Crown must settle with First Nations for breaching Robinson treaties: Supreme Court – APTN News
- Northern Manitoba community evacuated 20 years ago now fighting for First Nation status – CBC News
- Mi’gmaq communities file notice of action against New Brunswick to assert their land rights – APTN News
- ‘We never surrendered that’: Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation issues statement on duty to consult – CTV News
- Federal funding cut for residential school searches ‘disheartening’ and ‘disrespectful’: Manitoba chiefs – CBC News
Business, Finance & Economics
- TC Energy nears sale of pipeline to Indigenous groups – Financial Post
- Métis artist finds copies of her designs on website based in China – APTN News
- Sask. First Nation breaks ground on $52M thermal spa near Saskatoon – CBC News
- After promise to end subsidies, feds loan Coastal GasLink up to $200 million – National Observer
- New federal funding to support affordable homes in two Yukon First Nations communities – CBC News
Education, Health & Culture
- Truck delivery of B.C. salmon to Teslin, Yukon highlights cultural loss – CBC News
- Drinking water advisory on Star Blanket Cree Nation lifted after 17 years – CBC News
- Eskasoni breaks ground on new Headstart early childhood development building – SaltWire
- CBC Indigenous wins 3 awards at Indigenous Journalists Association conference – CBC News
- Protecting beneficiaries ahead of the Robinson-Huron Treaty annuities payments – CBC News
- Nursing shortage at Manitoba First Nations unacceptable, dangerous, leaders say – Global News
- Inquest explores challenges of remote health care after death of First Nations woman – APTN News
- Demonstrating unity, syilx Okanagan people and their kin cross the colonial border on horseback – Penticton Herald
- ‘Such a good opportunity’: NSCC Nautical Institute partnered with Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey to MED-certify Mi’kmaq youth – SaltWire
Environment, Science & Technology
- J.D. Irving wind farm worries some, company promises more consultation – CBC News
- Dying birch trees threaten Mi’kmaq canoe tradition in Nova Scotia – The Weather Network
- Federal government invests $19M in Nunavut renewable energy projects – ReNew Canada
- Feds says 22 First Nations are currently impacted by wildfires and 7 have evacuated – APTN News
- Indigenous firefighters share knowledge, training and compete during annual gathering – CBC News
- Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation flies citizens out to freshwater fishing grounds amid salmon harvest ban – CBC News