IndigeNews: Sep. 23 – 29, 2025

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

The Mi’kmaw word of the week is…

“tiam”
🗣 (dee-ahm)

Meaning: moose 🫎

In the News

  1. National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – CBC News
  2. UPEI to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – UPEI
  3. The Mi’kmaw fisher who waded into a war over treaty rights – CBC News
  4. Mi’kmaw language course comes to Lennox Island – West Prince Graphic
  5. Authors launch book confronting residential school denialism – APTN News
  6. Dorchester School to host 3rd Annual Fort Folly Youth Powwow – CHMA FM
  7. Absolutely Canadian docs highlight experiences of Indigenous People – CBC News
  8. Rare wampum beads discovered at 17th-century colony in Newfoundland – Live Science
  9. Hunters Mountain Mi’kmaq blockade continues into third week, visited by Liberal MP – Saltwire
  10. Is reconciliation at a standstill? We ask the minister of Indigenous Services Canada – APTN News
  11. Residents will soon vote on name change for community, bay on P.E.I.’s North Shore – CBC News
  12. Family fulfills late chief’s lifelong dream for massive plot of land: ‘For generations to come’ – The Cool Down

Politics & Law

  1. Treaty 5 document returns to Manitoba – CBC News
  2. Government of Canada Moves Forward on Bill S-2 – Newswire
  3. A Collective and United Approach Against Bill 97 – Nation Talk
  4. Assembly of Chiefs right to demand tougher sentences – Winnipeg Free Press
  5. Ottawa asks court to overturn tribunal order on First Nations child welfare – APTN News
  6. First Nations man launches human rights complaint against Midland, OPP – Barrie Today
  7. ISC minister grilled by Senate committee on 2nd-generation cut-off in Indian Act – APTN News
  8. Phil Fontaine, former AFN National Chief, accused of sexually assaulting student: lawsuit – CTV News
  9. Membertou Chief Terry Paul appointed to new federal Indigenous Advisory Council – Penticton Herald
  10. Forensic audit of FSIN finds over $34M in ‘questionable, ineligible or unsupported spending’ – APTN News
  11. Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Joanna Bernard has resigned from the child and families portfolio – APTN News
  12. The Treaty of 1752 is being cited by Mi’kmaq from Hunters Mountain to St. Mary’s Bay. What does it say and does it still apply? – Saltwire

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. First Nations, province reach historic tax deals – Telegraph-Journal
  2. Kwanlin Dün First Nation finishes 1st successful harvest at new farm – CBC News
  3. BMO Announces Addition of New Leaders to its Indigenous Advisory Council – Cision
  4. Ontario ombudsman calls out ‘unacceptable’ living conditions in Neskantaga First Nation – CBC News
  5. Cree corporation joins $400M bid to redevelop former Hudson’s Bay building in Montreal – CBC News
  6. Mi’kmaq communities and provincial government take step toward economic reconciliation – Nation Talk
  7. Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation looks to build an economic future with traditional trade routes – CBC News

Education, Health & Culture

  1. Indigenous stories gain momentum at CIFF – CBC News
  2. Millbrook woman wins Orange Shirt Day design contest – Truro News
  3. New Advisory Committee Centres Indigenous Voices – Education News
  4. Indigenous-led health education can make reconciliation real – Brandon Sun
  5. Innisfil’s Indigenous roots revealed through archaeological digs – Barrie Today
  6. The heartbeat of culture, community, and reconciliation in Mi’kma’ki – Penticton Herald
  7. Qalipu Chief highlights a busy summer including a large powwow in Conne River – Bay FM
  8. Teen viola player from Elsipogtog First Nation invited to perform at Carnegie Hall – CDN Press
  9. How Jeremy Dutcher balanced ‘beauty and horror’ on their 1st feature film score – CBC News

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. First Nation in B.C. investigates sturgeon deaths, plans to track drifting carcasses – CBC News
  2. BC Wildlife Federation demands answers on federal fight against invasive mussels – Castanet
  3. Cape Breton Highlands moose population recovering, but still low: helicopter survey – Saltwire
  4. Pimicikamak Cree Nation calls on moose hunters to return licences, citing scarcity concerns – CBC News
  5. Yukon First Nation holds first cultural caribou hunt on traditional territory in over 3 decades – CBC News
  6. 3 north Island First Nations frustrated as new evidence of sea lice on wild salmon emerges – Victoria News
  7. When ice melts, life melts too: The impact of the climate crisis on Indigenous peoples of the Arctic – Arctic Today

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

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