TRURO, N.S. – Over 60 members of the Micmac Rights Association (MRA) packed a conference hall in Truro on Sunday, December 14, 2025 for a meeting addressing what many participants described as a provincial “declaration of war” on Mi’kmaq treaty rights. The meeting brought together owners and representatives of Mi’kmaq truckhouses and trading posts from…
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Legal victory as 42 charges stayed against Greenwolf Cannabis!
The Micmac Rights Association legal team, led by former National Chief Delbert Riley, scored another major legal victory on Monday, November 24th in Kentville Provincial Court in Nova Scotia! A total of 42 criminal charges were stayed against Micmac Rights Association executive member Cody Ward, as well as Brian Sherman, Keegan Stevens, Tyler Keddy and…
Victory for Sack Vegas Trading Post and MRA legal team as Charter and s. 35 challenge result in withdrawal of all charges
DARTMOUTH – On November 20, 2024, RCMP officers made a warrantless entry into the Mi’kmaw owned Sack Vegas Trading Post on Sackville Drive, claiming to be in “hot pursuit” of someone from a traffic stop. But the facts didn’t support hot pursuit or any real emergency. Once inside the Mi’kmaw Truckhouse, Constable Christopher Graham unlawfully arrested…
Federal Crown states Treaty of 1752 is ‘un-applicable’ and its status is “uncertain”; Prosecutor and Judge refuse to hear Indigenous testimony about treaty
In a constitutional question being heard in Provincial court in Amherst, Nova Scotia, a Federal Crown brief claims “The status of the 1752 Peace and Friendship Treaty in 2025 is uncertain – either to whom it applies or whether it applies.” Breaking from Supreme Court precedent, the court also barred Indigenous leaders from testifying about…
PRESS RELEASE: RCMP launches raids across Mi’kma’ki, Micmac Rights Association responds with Action Plan
February 24, 2025 Caption: A collection of images and screenshots from recent RCMP raids. Beginning on February 4, 2025, the Nova Scotia RCMP initiated a series of raids targeting Mi’kmaq-owned truckhouses and residences across Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) many of which belong to Micmac Rights Association members. These raids are ongoing, and while details are still…
Micmac Rights Association denounces RCMP violence, theft and treaty breaking as Mi’kmaw truckhouses and homes are raided
Feb 7th, 2025 MI’KMA’KI – On February 4-5 the RCMP raided multiple Mi’kmaw truck houses that were causing harm to no one and operating on unceded Mi’kmaw lands in accordance with constitutionally protected Mi’kmaw aboriginal and treaty rights. The Micmac Rights Association denounces the unlawful actions of the RCMP in raiding treaty truckhouses, violating the…
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MRA receives response from Premiers, issues letter in reply
On September 6, 2024 the Micmac Rights Association received a letter from the Premiers of Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick in response to our letter of July 31st, 2024. The did not address the substantive issues of Mi’kmaq Aboriginal and treaty rights raised in the MRA letter. The full letter from the Premiers is…
Stand up for treaty rights – June 4 Protest in St. John
The Micmac Rights Association cordially invites you to join us as we stand against the Higgs government’s disrespect for Indigenous Treaty Rights and their raids on Micmac truck houses. EVENT DETAILS: BACKGROUNDER On April 26, 2024, and again on May 23, 2024, New Brunswick Public Safety officers unlawfully raided the Gitpu Trading Post (91 Russell…