B.C. court overturns limits on Indigenous commercial fishery
Chiefs say court ruling a ‘really important decision.’
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Mi’kmaw fishers say they were exercising treaty rights when arrested by fisheries officials
Mi’kmaw fishers were harvesting baby eels, known as elvers, when the Department of Fisheries and…
Sipekne’katik community members stand guard as Canada threatens to remove Treaty Truckhouse
At Saulnierville wharf, a red shipping container has become a fight for treaty rights.
‘We’re going to establish our own fishery’: Sipekne’katik First Nation rejects DFO moderate livelihood plan
The Sipekne’katik First Nation is rejecting an edict from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans…
Feds should be held accountable for violence against Mi’kmaw fishery: MP
‘They sat on their hands, and somebody could have been killed,’ says Gord Johns
Federal government agencies ‘complicit’ in violent attacks on Mi’kmaw harvesters: Chief
‘Maybe the joke is on us for expecting anything different,’ says Sipekne’katik Chief Mike Sack
DFO, RCMP knew violence was coming but did nothing to protect Mi’kmaw lobster harvesters: Documents
Records reveal feds were more concerned about policing Mi’kmaw fishery than protests aimed at it.
Sipekne’katik First Nation refuses to negotiate away treaties, calls off talks with Canada
‘A dirty move in my mind’ Chief Mike Sack says as negotiations fail.
Mi’kmaw chiefs say DFO only looking out for non-Indigenous fishers
Mi’kmaw chiefs appearing before a Parliamentary committee looking into fishing rights say the Department of…