Mi’kmaw History Month
https://mikmaqhistorymonth.ca/
This website provides educational resources to help teachers and students explore Mi’kmaw history, culture, language, traditions, and heritage. It includes annual history month posters, videos, historical information, and learning resources that can be incorporated into classroom lessons throughout the school year. A valuable resource for celebrating and learning about Mi’kmaw culture and history in Nova Scotia.
Explore historical documents, photographs, maps, treaties, and other primary sources related to Mi’kmaq history and communities in Nova Scotia. This website offers valuable resources and learning activities to support educators in teaching Mi’kmaq history, culture, and relationships with European settlers.
Atlantic First Nations Tech Services (previously known as 'Atlantic Canada's First Nation Help Desk') provides technology related services to education and health facilities across Atlantic Canada's First Nation communities.
http://firstnationhelp.com/
The Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre will be a meaningful and dynamic centre for Mi’kmaw people, and for visitors from across Nova Scotia, Canada and the world.
Treaty Education is a vehicle to begin the long-term journey, over generations, toward reconciliation. The Mi’kmaq and provincial government are working together to develop specific programs and services for the education system, provincial civil service and all Nova Scotians.These programs and services highlight the contributions of the Mi'kmaq. They help explain how the Treaties were significant building blocks for Nova Scotia and Canada and how we have all benefited from them.
Since 1999, UINR–Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources has been Cape Breton’s Mi’kmaw voice on natural resources and environmental concerns.
UINR represents the five Mi’kmaw communities of Unama’ki–Eskasoni, Membertou, Potlotek, Wagmatcook, and We’koqma’q – and was formed to address concerns regarding natural resources and their sustainability.
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http://mikmawplacenames.ca/
Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas and Web Site was created to raise awareness of the deep connection the Mi’kmaq have to the landscape of Eastern Canada they call Mi’kma’ki, the place of the Mi’kmaq.
Wisqoq/Black Ash
http://wisqoq.ca/
Wisqoq has unique features that enable it to be peeled into thin strips and bent which make it a preferred species for basketry, furniture, interior finish and as a veneer. Aboriginal Peoples of northeastern Canada and the United States historically and currently use Wisqoq in basket making, including the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia. Several Wisqoq hybrids and cultivars are used in landscaping.
The National Inquiry must look into and report on the systemic causes of all forms of violence against Indigenous women and girls. We must examine the underlying social, economic, cultural, institutional, and historical causes that contribute to the ongoing violence and particular vulnerabilities of Indigenous women and girls in Canada.
Aquatic life, and specifically the Fundy Watershed, is historically significant to the Mi’kmaq. From feeding our communities healthy food, to the spiritual significance of species like the American Eel & Salmon in ceremonies and feasts, the bounty of our oceans and streams and the protection of their habitat have always been at the forefront of our minds.