All week long celebration at the Halifax Commons in Mi’kma’ki. Music, crafts, cultural demonstrations such as basket weaving, drum making and more! This is the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Enjoy and recognize the peace and friendship treaties signed between the British crown and the Mi’kmaq from 1725 to the 1760’s. We are all treaty people and we have rights and responsibilities as Mi’kmaq and settlers alike. Cultural Village - NAIG https://naig2023.com/culture/village/ #Mikmaki

The settler government has no business policing a program administered by different sovereign government. Honour the Peace and Friendship Treaties, hands off the Mi’kmaw fishery. #colonialism #Mikmaki #NovaScotia #Fishery #Lobster #cdnpoli #PeaceAndFriendshipTreaties
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/indigenous-lobster-fishing-in-nova-scotia-dfo-1.6902635

“History was made on Sunday as hundreds lined up on the streets of Bridgewater to celebrate the first Pride Parade ever held in Nova Scotia’s South Shore.”
#Pride2023 #SouthShore #Lunenburg #Bridgewater #Mikmaki #NovaScotia
https://www.thebarnacle.ca/in-photos-bridgewaters-first-pride-parade/

Introduction Post:
My name is Christy and use they/them pronouns (#enby/#agender). I live in rural so-called #Lunenburg in the #SouthShore of #Mikmaki/#Acadie/#NovaScotia. I’m a settler who grew up in the Ottawa Valley and my family are #FrenchCanadian and #Irish who come from Quebec. I identify myself with #socialecology, #ancom, #peasantanarchist, and #agrariansyndicalist movements.

I am a #PhD candidate in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and I hope to finish writing my thesis this summer (#phdlife). My studies focus on #neoMarxist, #anarchist, and #decolonial approaches to #AgrarianPoliticalEconomy and #PoliticalEcology. I am specifically investigating historical patterns of #farmland distribution from 2000 to 2017 in #easternOntario through the use of property transfer records mapped using #QGIS. I am hoping to apply my method in Mikmaki next.

I am also a #garlic #farmer preserving as many varieties as I can. I have training in #agroecology, #organic, and #permaculture approaches to #horticulture. I help organize with my local chapter of the #NationalFarmersUnion and am interested in meeting other radical farmers, #landworkers, #homesteaders, #neopeasants, etc. who are interested in organizing for #foodsovereignty, #localfood systems, and #landback.

Other than all that, I am also fond of #tabletoproleplay, #fantasyliterature, #solarpunk #scifi, #bioregionalanimism, #baking, #wildcrafting, #foraging, #homebrewing, #fermenting, and #woodcarving.

The Importance of Daniel Paul’s "We Were Not the Savages" As Pamela Palmater noted in a Foreword to the final edition, “The truths, histories and lived experiences of Mi’kmaw Peoples, First Nations and Native American tribes since the European invasion began are as simple and as complex as that core message of this book: We Were Not the Savages.” #acadia #mikmaki #novascotia

https://acadiensis.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/the-importance-of-daniel-pauls-we-were-not-the-savages/

Mi'kmaw elder, activist, historian and author Daniel Paul has died. He was 84. Paul advocated for renaming landmarks named after Edward Cornwallis. The British governor of Nova Scotia issued a proclamation offering a bounty for Mi'kmaw men, women and children in 1749, the same year he established Halifax. As part of #reconciliation we should rename these landmarks with Mi'kmaq language names. #indigenous #mikmaki #novascotia #cornwallis

Sad to hear of the loss of such an incredible scholar and teacher. We Were Not The Savages is an essential reading to understand the true history of so-called Nova Scotia and Canada.

"During my time on Mother Earth I sincerely hope that I've made a difference for Indigenous peoples all over Turtle Island by revealing and proving the horrors that our ancestors suffered since Columbus got lost and landed in the Americas in 1492,"

#mikmaki #novascotia #landback

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mi-kmaw-elder-daniel-paul-has-died-after-cancer-battle-1.6890874

Better late than never. This trading post on the Halifax waterfront was 270 years in the making. It results from a treaty promise to Sipekne'katik First Nation dating back to 1752 | CBC News #mikmaki #novascotia #indigenous https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sipeknekatik-trading-post-halifax-waterfront-1.6882627 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sipeknekatik-trading-post-halifax-waterfront-1.6882627

‘It's almost magical': Mi’kmaw culture on display at Abegweit First Nation’s annual mawi'omi | SaltWire #PEI #mikmaki https://www.saltwire.com/prince-edward-island/news/its-almost-magical-mikmaw-culture-on-display-at-abegweit-first-nations-annual-mawiomi-100863202/

"A Canoe for Humankind" a 21-foot-long ocean faring birchbark canoe with a unique rise in its middle — a defence against turbulent ocean waters. “When I’m in the forest, harvesting bark or gathering roots, they’re always around,” he says. “This is something that runs deep in my family’s blood, on both sides. I don’t do this for money. It’s what I dream when I go to sleep at night.” Mi’kmaq artisan Todd Labrador #mikmaki #novascotia #canoe
https://www.toqueandcanoe.com/2023/06/04/canadian-canoe-museum/

It was mostly white settlers who decided whose history was valuable and whose history should not be preserved. Archivists from marginalized communities are working to change this in #NovaScotia #Mikmaki and throughout #turtleisland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/work-needed-marginalized-communities-historical-record-1.6871048