Acadia First News Today

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has expressed confidence in the appointment of Tim Cranston, a former Progress...

Sunday, Oct. 1 was the 30th anniversary of Treaty Day in Nova Scotia. A flag-raising ceremony in Halifax on Monday celebrated this occasion.

Alexandra Beals is one of eight First Nations artists offering up options for our next $20 bill featuring an Indigenous woman, which would be a first. Her version portrays Rita

A delegation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people are returning from Rome after meeting with Pope Francis to share stories about the impact of Canada's residential schools. Here at home, students and parents are keeping conversations about truth and reconciliation in education alive. 

A course was offered for the first time at Nova Scotia Community College's nautical institute in Port Hawkesbury last fall, created by biologist and educator Leah Creaser from Acadia First Nation.

Inside the decades-long East Coast battle between fishers and the federal government over Mi'kmaw treaty rights

  TORONTO -- Todd Labrador, a Mi’kmaq man from the Wildcat Reserve in Queens County, N.S., has made it his life’s work to preserve the traditional craftsmanship of birchbark canoes. Labrador, who is a member of Acadia First Nation, was born in Bridgewater, N.S., in 1960 and grew up on the reserve with his father who was the first Chief of the Acadia First Nation. It was there that Labrador learned the traditional craft of building birchbark canoes from his great grandfather and father, ...

All first-year biology students at Acadia University in Wolfville, N.S., now learn about Mi'kmaw traditional knowledge thanks to the efforts of one student who was tired of seeing Indigenous perspectives ignored in science. 

Share: YARMOUTH, NS, May 6, 2021 /CNW/ - Canadas forest sector is a vital source of revenue and employment across the country for Indigenous communities. The Government of Canada is investing in projects to equip them with the tools needed to promote further economic opportunity in the forest sector and within their communities. The Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and Member of Parliament for South Shore–St. Margarets, on behalf of the...

Posted: Jan 31, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 31 Bridget Stevens and Natteal Battiste say Tribal Boxing Club is like a family. (Emma Smith/CBC) At her Dartmouth, N.S., boxing club, coach Bridget Stevens shares the lessons she grew up with on the Eskasoni First Nation. Its more important to her that fighters learn how to be good people and support each other than it is for them to win every match. "What Im doing here is what our community members do to help one another," said Stevens...