IndigeNews: May 21 – 26, 2025

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

The Mi’kmaw phrase of the week is…

“wjipskl“
🗣 (wuh-jib-iss-gull)

Meaning: roots 🫚 

In the News

  1. Truth walks path through Indigenous culture and history – The Senior
  2. DFO seized lobster traps, violated Treaty rights: P.E.I. First Nation – CTV News
  3. New Mi’kmaw place name signs installed in Cavendish and Rustico – Ocean 100
  4. Tensions high between Mi’kmaw Nation in P.E.I., and federal officers – APTN News
  5. Governor General to take part in the Royal Visit – The Governor General of Canada
  6. Lennox Island First Nation in PEI vows to fight seizure of lobster traps – APTN News
  7. Sipekne’katik First Nation fishers say treaty elver fishery is ‘a peaceful thing’ – CBC News
  8. Community leader, environment groups recognized for reconciliation efforts on P.E.I. – CBC News
  9. Cloak unveiled in P.E.I. helps families of missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls heal – CBC News
  10. ‘It’s profoundly shameful’; Manitoba Museum plans to repatriate historical Indigenous remains – APTN News

Politics & Law

  1. Superior Court rules in favor of Radio-Canada – Nation Talk
  2. Mi’kmaw fishers exercise treaty rights in self-governed fishery – CBC News
  3. In the tariff war, is Canada forgetting about Indigenous nations? – Nation Talk
  4. New Indigenous Services minister says she’s been handed the ‘toughest task’ – CTV News
  5. Carney government offers DFO no new direction on First Nations fishery enforcement – Saltwire
  6. Caring Society says ‘bald allegations’ levelled by Canada at human rights tribunal not based in fact – APTN News
  7. Q&A | N.W.T. MP Rebecca Alty on her cabinet appointment, and how she’ll work to advance land claims in riding – CBC News

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. Federal public service cut by nearly 10,000 jobs, new data shows – The Hill Times
  2. Province responds to chief’s criticism of Saint John industrial park expansion project – CBC News
  3. Indigenous equity opportunity in oil and gas valued at $58 billion over next 10 years – Energy Now
  4. Federal government faces human rights complaint over Indigenous procurement system – Global News
  5. Lheidli T’enneh, McLeod Lake part of First Nations group to acquire $700M stake in pipeline – My PG Now

Education, Health & Culture

  1. Fort Folly youth powwow returns – CHMA FM
  2. Rally Against Racism returns in Truro – Truro News
  3. Basic Folk podcast, eps. 311 – Morgan Toney – Folkalley
  4. Perspectives in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) – Nation Talk
  5. Alberta separatist pitching melting pot society after leaving Canada – APTN News
  6. ‘Reconciliation is not dead,’ TRC commissioner tells Cape Breton audience – Saltwire
  7. Carleton University launches new program aimed at training Indigenous journalists – CBC News
  8. ‘Eat, Make, Share, A Taste of Immigration’: Pier 21 exhibition explores Canada’s cuisine – CTV News

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. “Fire is not inherently bad” says Fire Archeologist  – CBC News
  2. Thunder Bay is bringing its Great Lake shoreline back  – The Narwhal
  3. Squamish Nation celebrates return of herring harvest – The Narwhal
  4. Billions of litres of sewage in the rivers — can it be fixed? – The Narwhal
  5. How this big wheel is tracking young salmon in Cape Breton – CBC News
  6. FOREST MANAGEMENT: ANCESTRAL RIGHTS ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE – Newswire
  7. Two recent court judgments put brakes on giant Ottawa River nuclear waste dump – The Hill Times
  8. Manitoba First Nation evacuating some residents due to heavy smoke from nearby wildfire – CTV News
  9. Doug Ford says some First Nations will ‘never agree’ to proposed bill speeding up mine development – Toronto Star

Wela’lioq, Msit No’kmaq – Thank you, All My Relations

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    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
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  3. Contest begins on July 17, 2023 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on September 30, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on October 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
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    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on May 8, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
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  3. Contest begins on December 12, 2022 at 12:00:00 a.m. AST and ends on January 31, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. AST
  4. The prize consists of:
    • Basket by master basket weaver, Keptin Jimmy Bernard
    • L’nuey blanket
    • L’nuey Toque
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on February 6, 2023.
  6. L’nuey will contact the Prize winner through the email address provided on the contest entry form. If it is not possible within a 48 hour period to contact the Prize winner, L’nuey will disqualify that Entry and randomly select another Entry as the winner. Once the winner is successfully contacted, they will be required to answer a skill-testing question to be verified.
  7. Once verified, the Prize winner must make arrangements with L’nuey to pick up their prize.
  8. The Prize must be accepted as described and may not be transferred to another person prior to being awarded. L’nuey retains the right to replace the Prize with a different prize of equal or greater value if the original prize becomes unavailable for reasons beyond L’nuey’s control.
  9. The name of the winner upon receiving their Prize will be posted on L’nuey’s website, as well as shared on their social channels.
  10. L’nuey reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Contest without notice, for any reason, including if they are not capable of running as planned or the Contest is adversely affected by computer virus, fraud, technical failures or other causes beyond its control.
  11. All Contestants agree to be bound by the rules of the Contest and release L’nuey and all parties associated with the Contest from any liability with respect to this Contest or any prize.
  12. All decisions by L’nuey with regard to all aspects of this Contest are final.

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