Six years ago, Honourable Judge Laurie Halfpenny MacQuarrie and the chiefs of Wagmatcook and We’koqma’q solved an important issue: Indigenous access to justice in Northern Unama’ki/Cape Breton.
Since then, Nova Scotia has donated a Christmas tree to the City of Boston for their annual tree lighting ceremony and this year it is coming from Mattie Settlement in Antigonish County.
Brown and Johnson told the Argus Leader on Monday that the trip showed them how similar their cultures, history and beliefs are. For example, they have smoking ceremonies similar to smudging but with ...