IndigeNews: Sep. 9 – 15, 2025

Kwe’ nitap – Hello friend,

The Mi’kmaw phrase of the week is…

“km’tn”
🗣 (gim-din)

Meaning: mountain ⛰️ 

In the News

  1. Indigenous government: the role of an Indian Act chief – CBC News
  2. 3 First Nations women share why orange shirts are important to them – CBC News
  3. First Nations Chiefs Attend AFN 46th Annual General Assembly: Prosperity for All – Nation Talk
  4. Carney appoints 11 members to Major Project Office’s Indigenous Advisory Council – CBC News
  5. Paper company suspends logging in Cape Breton Highlands amid Mi’kmaw blockade – CBC News
  6. Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 Annual Gathering Commemorating 175 Years of Treaty – Nation Talk
  7. Indigenous students find connection and support at UNB’s Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre – Nation Talk
  8. Indigenous Services Minister says Indigenous advisory council won’t replace consultation – APTN News
  9. The only Canadian island where ancient Gaelic & Mi’kmaq cultures share sacred waters – Journee-mondiale

Politics & Law

  1. Feds shoot down native Kapyong claim – Global News
  2. Minister of Indigenous Services visits Virtual Health Hub site – CTV News
  3. Ottawa names Indigenous advisory council on major projects – Barrie Today
  4. Sudbury city council to vote on creation of Indigenous advisory panel – Nation Talk
  5. Ontario Indigenous leaders hold town halls on $8.5B child welfare agreement – CBC News
  6. Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador call on province to withdraw Bill 97 – APTN News
  7. Mass stabbing renews plea for heightened support for Manitoba First Nations police, safety officers – CBC News

Business, Finance & Economics

  1. N.S. government provides details about $60B ‘Wind West’ as feds give nod – CBC News
  2. Prime minister to announce the first series of major nation-building projects – Global News
  3. First Nation development corporation opens new Trans-Canada Highway gas station – SNNewsWatch
  4. Mastercard Foundation announces $235 million to post-secondary educational institutions – Newswire
  5. First Nation marks milestone in connecting members to traditional territory on Nootka Island – Campbell River
  6. Thunder Bay Researcher Co-Leads $10.8M National Project to Improve Indigenous Youth Mental Health – Lakehead University

Education, Health & Culture

  1. U of A student competing for the crown of Miss Earth – MSN
  2. ‘We were all crying’: Sask. First Nation’s church destroyed by fire – CTV News
  3. Abbe honors past, present and future with stunning exhibits – Mount Desert Islander
  4. Documentary focuses on First Nations’ land back protest five decades ago – Wind Speaker
  5. Historian says board rewriting history by changing school named after Cornwallis – Global News
  6. Wake the Giant Music Festival in Thunder Bay connects First Nation students to community – CBC News
  7. How Indigenous midwives and doulas in B.C. are providing cultural care for expectant mothers – CBC News
  8. How an Anishinaabe artist is bringing truth and reconciliation into classrooms with a board game – CBC News
  9. Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) – “the visual effects elevate the otherworldliness.” – Live for Film
  10. A new book collects Indigenous former residential students’ grim memories of the Mohawk Institute – Toronto Star

Environment, Science & Technology

  1. ‘Communities already have the solutions’: why I advocate for Indigenous knowledge – Nature
  2. N.S. invests in projects aimed at protecting hemlock trees from an invasive species – CTV News
  3. Assembly Calls for a Wholistic Eco-System Management Plan for the Cape Breton Highlands – Nation Talk
  4. ‘It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet’: striped bass in a Canadian river are gobbling up all the salmon – The Guardian
  5. ‘Not a protest, this is a protection:’ Forestry blockade heats up on Cape Breton’s Hunters Mountain – Saltwire
  6. 4 years after Fairy Creek, a new battle over B.C.’s old-growth forests looms in the Walbran Valley – The Narwhal
  7. Williams Lake First Nations condemns illegal elk harvesting, implenting new measures to find poachers – My Cariboo Now

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
    • $200 grocery gift card
  5. Prize winner will be selected via a random draw on October 6, 2023.
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  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.
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  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 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.
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  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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