Sipekne’katik First Nation getting set to launch treaty fishery Monday
Chief calls for people to come help and ‘set up shop’ for a while.
Treaty Rights
Mi’kmaw grandmother asks NDP leader Jagmeet Singh if he supports treaty rights
At a stop in Halifax on his tour of Atlantic Canada, Mi’kmaw grandmother Darlene Gilbert…
Chiefs slam Ontario, call on Queen’s Park to stop appealing landmark treaty annuities case
Ontario is challenging a 2018 lower court finding that the Crown has a ‘mandatory and reviewable’ duty to raise treaty annuity
Sipekne’katik community members stand guard as Canada threatens to remove Treaty Truckhouse
At Saulnierville wharf, a red shipping container has become a fight for treaty rights.
Mi’kmaw MP says new DFO policy could employ hundreds of harvesters this year
‘That’s an opportunity that I don’t think enough people are talking about,’ according to Jaime Battiste. He says other options remain on the table
Trappers want squatters gone from territory outside Yellowknife, but it’s not going to be easy
Fred Sangris walks the same snow-covered trail used by his ancestors for over 500 years….
Restoring coal policy in Alberta ‘a step forward’ but major project still a go
Grassy Mountain coal mine still on track to start construction later this year
Sipekne’katik First Nation suing Nova Scotia for infringing on treaty rights
‘We are more resolved than ever to bring this to court as we have lost so much in the face of the violence and economic racism….’
What’s in store for harvesting rights? InFocus looks forward to 2021
From fish farms, treaty fishing, to the moose moratorium, First Nations fought hard for harvesting and resource rights last year