Stephen Augustine is the hereditary chief of one of those seven clans, from the Signigtog region. Stephen Augustine is a member of the Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nations community located outside Rexton, New Brunswick. Stephen obtained a Bachelor...
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My father, Joseph Alfred Hatfield, was born in Yarmouth (Kespukwitk District), Nova Scotia March 13, 1913. It is through his mother, Anne Eliza Boudreau (born June 27, 1896 in Wedgeport, NS), and in turn, her mother, Celestine Pothier (born...
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Russel Barsh was a weekend beachcomber and fossil hunter as a child growing up on Long Island Sound who went on to study paleontology at Harvard with Stephen Jay Gould. Friendships in Indian country and a research trip to Fiji in 1970 convinced...
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Will Basque was a poet, activist, combat veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and sma’knis (soldier) of the Sante Mawio’mi until his untimely death in 1998. He is the son of Mi’kmaw educator Elsie Basque and father Isaac Basque. He was...
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Dr. Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaw educator from Potlotek (pronounced Boht-loh-deck) First Nations, Nova Scotia and full professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan. Born to Mi’kmaq parents, John and...
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Mariah Battiste is a Mi’kmaq woman from the communities of Chapel Island First Nation and Eskasoni First Nations in Nova Scotia. She has a BA Honors in Women and Gender Studies and Masters in Science, in the department of Community Health and...
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Jaime Battiste LL.B., a Mi’kmaq from Potlotek First Nations, Unama’ki, resides in Eskasoni with his son Jacoby Youngblood. A graduate of Mi’kmaq Studies at the Cape Breton University and a graduate of the Dalhousie University Law School, he is a...
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Tim Bernard began his 18-year career with The CMM since 1988 in the Research Unit. However, Tim is best known for his work as Manager/Editor of the Mi'kmaq-Mailseet Nations News and Eastern Woodland Publishing.
With his knowledge of Mi'...
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Randy respectfully affiliates with Bear River and Acadia First Nations, where his family have longstanding ties documented back to the early and mid 1600s. His father, Joe Bowers and paternal grandmother, Honora Richard-Bowers came via Charlos...
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Dr. Elsie Charles Basque is a Mi’kmaw woman, mother, Elder, and teacher. Elsie was born in 1916 and was the first Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia to hold a teachers licence and also the first Mi’kmaq to teach in a non-native school. Elsie spent much of...
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