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Mi'kmaq man on quest to preserve traditional birchbark canoe craft

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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, according to a Facebook page dedicated to his art.
The Mi’kmaq travelled the lakes and rivers of eastern Canada for thousands of years in the canoes, and deep in Kejimkujik National Park, Labrador continues the tradition, using generational knowledge that was all but wiped out through Canada’s forced assimilation residential school system and genocidal colonial history. ....

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Mi'kmaw student creates lab at Acadia to share traditional knowledge with future scientists

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. ....

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Investing in Indigenous-Led Economic Development in Nova Scotia

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YARMOUTH, NS, May 6, 2021 /CNW/ - Canada s 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 Honourable Seamus O Regan Jr., Minister of Natural Resources, today announced $48,000 in funding for Acadia First Nation to:
Create a standing timber inventory to track present and future sales of hardwoods, softwoods and value-added products, including silviculture recommendations; ....

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Dartmouth boxing gym refuses to get KO'd by pandemic

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.
It s 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 I m doing here is what our community members do to help one another, said Stevens, who owns Tribal Boxing Club on Windmill Road.
It s why even in the middle of a pandemic, she s offering free classes for youth who can t afford to pay. She wants boxing to be a refuge for those who need it, like it has been for her. ....

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Livelihood lobster fishing cast adrift: How DFO's inaction has history repeating itself | City | Halifax, Nova Scotia

Livelihood lobster fishing cast adrift: How DFO’s inaction has history repeating itself
Years after the controversial 1999 Marshall decision, violence calmed when a fishery officer and First Nation chief found common ground.
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Lobster was once a poor person s food. It was used for fertilizer, fish bait and was fed to prisoners. Now it s considered a delicacy and has become a billion-dollar industry in Nova Scotia.
Stefan Sinclair-Fortin
St. Mary’s Bay in southwestern Nova Scotia is full of lobster. It is one of the most plentiful spots within the most lucrative lobster fishing area (LFA 34, technically) in Canada. It is also as its name suggests a bay. Flanked by the long peninsula of Digby Neck and its islands, the bay’s ....

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