September 17, 2020 Today marks 21 years since the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the Mi’kmaq’s Constitutional right to hunt, fish and gather in the pursuit of a Moderate Livelihood in R v. Marshall. Despite our rights being affirmed by the highest courts in the country, exercising these rights continues
Category: Rights Implementation
Rights Implementation
Chiefs Working with Communities on Moderate Livelihood
September 10, 2020 Fishing has been a fundamental part of the Mi’kmaq way of life since time immemorial and in the 1999 Marshall Decision the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the Constitutional Right to earn a moderate livelihood. Twenty-one years later, the federal government has neither established regulations for a
The Challenge with Self-Identification and Recent Court Decisions
Europeans and western governments have worked for centuries to oppress and eliminate the Indigenous peoples of Canada. This has included tactics such as the creation of the Indian Act, residential schools, and the Sixties Scoop, The continuous attempts of ethnocide throughout history are never-ending.
Mi’kmaq Have a RIGHT to fish in Nova Scotia Waters
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 26, 2017 The Mi’kmaq have a constitutional Right to harvest for a Moderate Livelihood. In the 1999 Donald Marshall ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada found that a series of Treaties signed in 1760-61 by Mi’kmaq and the British Crown are still valid, and that there
Understanding Family Connections
One of the pillars of the negotiation process is “to revive, promote and protect a healthy Mi’kmaq identity”. Determining who is a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw beneficiary is an important and critical topic. Our role at Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office (KMKNO) is to gather information from community members on this issue.