From Ku’Ku’ Kwe News by Maureen Googoo September 25 2023 More than 50 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are currently before the courts in Nova Scotia on fishery-related offences. The charges range from fishing for lobster or elver eels without authorization, failing to use lobster tags issued by Fisheries and Oceans…
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List of 54 Mi’kmaw fishers charged with fishery offences
From Ku’Ku’ Kwes News by Maureen Googoo September 25 2023 Editor’s note: Several of these court cases have been updated since this list was initially published on Sept. 25, 2023. Ku’ku’kwes News has been tracking the court cases of 54 Mi’kmaw fish harvesters from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick who are before the Nova Scotia courts for…
Are your aboriginal and treaty rights being violated?
If you are Micmac and your rights have been violated by the Federal government, the Province or an Indian Act Band Council, we want to hear about what happened and discuss what we can do about it together!
Register to attend the October 14 Micmac Rights Biannual Meeting
The Micmac Rights Association is an organization that exists outside and against Canada’s racist Indian Act system. We are building an organization to fight for the inherent sovereign rights of the Micmac people, with a focus on defending our rights to our own fishing, tobacco, and cannabis economies. We are holding our biannual meeting on…
SIGN THE PETITION: Defend the L’nuk Lounge! Stop Criminalizing the Indigenous Economy!
The L’nuk Lounge, a Micmac sovereign cannabis dispensary operating off-reserve in Moncton, New Brunswick in accordance with constitutionally protected Aboriginal and treaty rights was raided by “Public Safety” Officers on Wednesday, August 30th, 2023. In letters written on May 2nd, May 4th, July 6th, and August 29th of 2023, L’Nuk Lounge representatives – including former…
Millbrook RCMP detachment assist Province in illegally raiding King of Weed dispensary in Millbrook First Nation and assaulting Micmac people
On June 1st, 2023, members of the Millbrook RCMP assisted provincial tobacco and fuel officers in stealing over $100,000 of trade goods from the King of Weed truck house in Millbrook First Nation. In doing so, the officers assaulted a Micmac woman and man who were filming the raid. Check out the videos below.
The Proposed Millbrook FN Band Custom Election Code is a danger to democracy that empowers the Band Administration
The following is an assessment of the Millbrook First Nation Band Custom Election Code which is being proposed to replace the current election system which is determined by sections 74(1)-80 of the Indian Act and the government of Canada’s Indian Band Election Regulations. As the guiding principles of the proposed Election Code make clear, this is an election code which operates in accordance with the Indian Act. It is thus by definition, not a process which is “consistent with our [Mi’kmaq] unique customs, practices and traditions.”
An initial response to the Draft Millbrook First Nation Cannabis Control Law by the Micmac Rights Association – May 10, 2023
Unfortunately, our worst fears have been confirmed by the final draft of the Millbrook Cannabis Control Law that is being brought to the Band Council for discussion on May 9th, 2023. This draft law does not take into account the opinions of either the band members or the cannabis dispensary owners who were supposedly consulted in the report. It replicates all the failed policies of the Kahnawake cannabis law, which has been a disastrous failure not only in Kahnawake, but in Six Nations, Tyendinaga, and everywhere else it has been tried.
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NS Mi’kmaw leaders link lack of DFO control over elver eel fishery to shooting of Eskasoni man
From Ku’Ku’ Kwe News by Maureen Googoo April 6 2023 Mi’kmaw leaders in Nova Scotia are accusing the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of not doing enough to control the elver eel fishery following an alleged shooting of an Eskasoni man in Meteghan, N.S. “We had previously expressed concerns to DFO about the safety of…