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Echoes of the Marshall Inquiry
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HALIFAX – Donald Marshall, Jr., was a Mi’kmaw man wrongfully convicted of the murder of Sandy Seale in 1971 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He spent 11 years in prison for murder, then was acquitted of all charges in 1983. However, grave oversights occurred during the initial Sydney Police investigation, the [...]
Mi’kmaq workers cite harassment by border guards
Mi’kmaq from New Brunswick and Canada experienced an aggressive search operation by U.S. Customs officials as they crossed to work as blueberry rakers in Maine last week.
Some of the Mi’kmaq interviewed by the Bangor Daily News said they were held as long as three hours. Many complained of an aggressive attitude by the Customs agents. [...]
Leonard Peltier denied parole after 32 years in prison
Last month, U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole. Peltier has been imprisoned for 32 years, and is serving two life sentences for the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a 1975 standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in 1977.
Amnesty International has called for the [...]
Mi’kmaq Protest on N.B./Quebec border
The New Brunswick Tribune reported that a peaceful protest started last Wednesday night at the welcome sign on the Quebec side of the J. C. Van Horne Bridge. The bridge is the border crossing between Campbellton, N.B., and Pointe-aux-Croix, Quebec. The land belongs to the Listuguj First Nation, and protest spokesman Alex Morrison said they [...]
VOICES OF OUR NATIONS: Eight hour special broadcast
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VOICES of our NATIONS
First Annual Radio-a-thon
on CKDU 88.1 FM
Friday, July 3rd from midnight to 8 am
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There are over one million First Peoples, from dozens of nations, with dozens of languages, living in Canada.
The Voices of our Nations Radio-a-thon is the first-ever collaboration of Indigenous programmers from radio stations in all corners of the country.
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