Eskasoni Treaty Day
2023-10-01 08:00 (America/Halifax) | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Come on down and join us for fun filled evening
Supper prepared by Eric Stevens
Drumming by Indian Bay Singers
All dancers are welcomed to dance
Ko’jua and Waltes Competitions
Live Music entertainment by BlueMoose Band

Charlottetown Treaty Day
2023-10-01 08:00 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
ALL ARE WELCOME! PJILITA’OW TA’N TE’SIOO!
Come and learn traditional Mi’kmag customs, games, dances, songs, stories, art, and enjoy the beautiful culture at our 1st annual Treaty Dav Mawio’mi.

Blair I. Bernard Memorial Feast in the Highlands
2023-10-05 12:30 - 14:00 | Hunters Mountain Airstrip, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mi'kmaw History Month - Knowledge Keepers Part 2
2023-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre, 65 Treaty Trail, Millbrook Mi'kmaw Community, NS, b6l 1w3, Canada
This vears Mi’kmaw history events will follow what we did last year by bringing in our knowledge keepers to share with us different areas of Mi’kmaw history. We hope you can join us!
October 5 @ 6:00pm:
Gerald Gloade – Story Telling
October 13th @ 1:00pm
Madeline Paulette – History of Waltes
October 19 @ 4:00pm
Walter Denny – History of Wampum
October 25th @ 5:30pm
Brian J Francis – Medicines

Indianbrook Salmon Festival
2023-10-07 14:00 | Stewiacke River Park, 528 Stewiacke River Road, East Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, Canada
Join us in honouring the life of the Plamu
All are welcome
When: Saturday, October 7th
Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: The Stewiacke River Park,
528 Stewiacke River Road Park
East Stewiacke, NS

Mi'kmaw History Month - Knowledge Keepers Part 2
2023-10-13 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-19 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-25 17:30 - 18:30 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Wasoqopa'q Harvest Feast
2023-10-14 13:00 - 19:00 | Rose Purdy Recreation Field, 15 Burbine Street, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, B5A 4V8, Canada
Free Entry, Free Harvest Food, Mi’kmaw Marketplace, Live Music, 50/50, Bingo, Fireworks, Mi’kmaw Cultural Demos, Childrens Activities, Award Winning- Mi’kmaw Singer & Songwriter DeeDee Austin

PICTOU LANDING FIRST NATION MAWIO'MI
2023-10-21 - 2023-10-22 | Pictou Landing First Nation, 6533 Pictou Landing Rd, Trenton, Nova Scotia, B0K 1X0, Canada
Honouring our Toddler & Babies

A Mi'kmaw Drumming Circle, with the Pictou Landing Warriors (drop-in)
2024-09-23 16:00 - 16:45 | Pictou Public Library, 99 Water Street, Pictou, Nova Scotia, B0K 1H0, Canada
Join us and listen to a Mi’kmaw Drumming Circle performance by the Pictou Landing Warriors, a youth drumming circle from Pictou Landing First Nation. All are welcome! For more information, please call the Pictou Library at (902) 485-5021, or email, pictou@parl.ns.ca.

Alan Syliboy and the Thundermakers - Sculpture Unveiling, Meet the Artists & a Performance
2024-09-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Pictou Public Library, 99 Water Street, Pictou, Nova Scotia, B0K 1H0, Canada
with special guests James Hill and Dave Gunning (drop-in)

Join us for the official unveiling of the Thundermaker Eel Fishing sculpture on the deCoste Culture Hub’s waterfront boardwalk, meet the artists, Alan Syliboy and Darren Martin – and listen to a performance with the Thundermakers, with special guests, James Hill and Dave Gunning. For more information, please contact the Pictou Library at (902) 485-5021, or email pictou@parl.ns.ca.
About the Band: The Thundermakers are an award-winning Canadian Indigenous Rock and Spoken Word group out of Mi’kma’ki. Blending genres from rock, jazz, improvised experimental, spoken word and ambient orchestral music, the Thundermakers maintain a foothold in the past, while always pushing towards a better future for Indigenous Peoples everywhere. They have received three nominations for Indigenous Artist of the Year from the East Coast Music Association (2019, 2021, 2022) and won Indigenous Artist of the Year in 2018 and 2019 from Music Nova Scotia.

Mi'kmaq Treaty Day
2024-09-30 13:00 - 2024-10-01 16:00 | Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P7, Canada
Mi’kmaq Treaty Day 2024 will take place over two days, beginning on September 30th with a Mi’kmaw Cultural Showcase and Veteran’s Parade in Halifax. On October 1st, the celebration continues with a Mi’kmaw church service at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica, followed by a flag raising ceremony at Government House, including drumming, prayer, and remarks from dignitaries. The day will conclude with the Treaty Day Awards at Pier 21, recognizing achievements within the Mi’kmaw community. These events serve to honour the living Mi’kmaw treaties and reaffirm the strong relationship between the Mi’kmaq and the Crown.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Walk/ Treaty Day Celebration Event at Membertou School.
2024-10-01
Includes inter-generational community storytelling, Mi’kmaq drumming and singing including youth drum group, cultural displays open to the public, memorial walk at dusk. Memorabilia provided to community members (orange shirts, pins), traditional refreshments of luski and jam and blueberry tea prepared by Membertou community hospitality group, vendors on site.

Mi'kmaq History Month Activities
2024-10-01 09:00 - 17:00 | Sipekne’katik Mawoi’mi Abor and grounds, Canada
Sipekne’katik will host our Annual Treaty Day Community Feast and Celebrations for all community and outside sister communities with a traditional menu which includes but not limited to salmon, moose meat, lobster and traditional bread Luski. Cultural events hosted by Elders and Knowledge Keepers to teach traditional Mi’kmaq practices that include by not limited to outdoor cooking over an open fire, making four cents, cleaning and preparing wild game for food, waltes, and activities for students. All events are open for everyone and anyone in attendance to observe and or participate

Birch Bark Canoe Launch
2024-10-01 10:00 | Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site
Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site
Saturday, October 1st at 10:00am
Merrymakedge Beach (P4)
Join Mi’kmaq artisan, Todd Labrador, his family, and the Kejimkujik team
as we launch the 21-foot birch bark canoe built this summer at the birch
bark canoe shop.
Rain date: Sunday, October 2, 2022, at 10 am

Mi'kmaq History Month Gathering of our Mi'kmaq Honoring Kji Saqmaw Membertou
2024-10-01 10:00 - 2024-10-30 15:00 | Ponhook Mi’kmaw Communty Memorial Park, Canada
Wasoqopa’q First Nation is unique in the fact that the whole First Nation encompasses communities. This event will take place in the Ponhook Mi’kmaw Community, this event will be for all of our community members living on reserve and off reserve the opportunity to come together with other Mi’kmaw of Nova Scotia to honor Grand Chief Membertou. We will host this event to allow our Traditional Elders to conduct Ceremony to honour the conversations and history of the true burial site for the Grand Chief Membertou in the Screecher located in Lake Rossignol, Queens County, Nova Scotia. We will have the opportunity to learn and share the Mi’kmaw history and culture, learn the history of the first peoples of this land we call Mi’kma’ki.

Wagmatcook Elders Gathering- Speakers series - Waltis World Champion Feature
2024-10-01 13:00 - 2024-10-31 13:00 | Wagmatcook Culture and Heritage Center- Great Hall, 10765 NS-105, Wagmatcook, Nova Scotia, BOE 3N0, Canada
A Presentation from the World Walter 2024 Champion, The Display of the winning Waltes Games, and Presentation of Appreciation plaque from Chief and Council and Director of Community Culture & Heritage.
The Game of Waltes. Waites, also called woltestakun or altestakun is a kind of dice gamethought to be of pre-Columbian origin. It is played on a circular wooden dish (usually of rock maple) about twelve inches in diameter, hollowed to three-quarters of an inch at its centre. There are six dice made of caribou bone with flat faces and rounded sides; one face being plain, and the others bearing a dotted cross. When all the marked or all the unmarked faces are turned up there is a count of five points. If five marked faces and one unmarked face or five unmarked faces and one marked face are turned up one point is given, and if a die falls off the dish there is no count.
This Year at the World Waltes championships the winner was Molly Pierro, whom was undefeated during the Millbrook Millbrook Waltes on July 12th• 2024. Pierro played a total of six games at the championship and won each of them, earning her first place, a champion medallion, and a handmade Waltes bowl made by Chad Denny.

Tuesday Night Talk, free at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
2024-10-01 18:30 - 21:00 | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1S3, Canada
Mi’kmaw artists are creating a wide range of imaginative and beautiful work using the skills and traditions of basketry weaving given to them by their elders and ancestors.
Peter J Clair is one of nine artists presented in The Art of Mi’kmaw Basketry (FORMAC publishing), which was released in 2023.
Peter was among the first to break new ground in the 1980s when public interest was rising in Indigenous contemporary art. As a master sculptural weaver he uses natural materials to create thought-provoking pieces using traditional and contemporary forms. He often uses Black Ash, willow and other tree barks.
Peter is also a poet and fiction writer. As our guest speaker, he will present in English, with occasional commentary in Mi’kmaw.

Living History, 25 years after the Marshall decision
2024-10-02 09:00 - 2024-11-29 15:00 | Eltuek Arts Centre, 170 George St., Sydney, Nova Scotia, B1P 1J2, Canada
The Marshall Case stands as a beacon in the history of Indigenous treaty rights in Canada, its waves rippling through the legal and cultural landscape of our time.
At the heart of this landmark ruling is Donald Marshall Jr., a Mi’kmaw from Membertou, Unama’ki, Cape Breton, whose name would come to echo through the chambers of justice and be embodied in Mi’kmaw youth on land and open waters. The decision upheld Indigenous rights to earn a livelihood from the harvest and sale of fish, wildlife, wild fruit and berries as set forth in the Peace and Friendship Treaties of 1760 and 1761.
Photographing and connecting with proud, young Mi’kmaw harvesters, conservationists, and activists, it was plain to see that Junior’s sacrifices were not in vain. Each face tells a story of enduring spirit within the community.
Living History is on at Eltuek Arts Centre in Sydney, Unama’ki, Cape Breton from Monday through Friday 9am-4pm and Saturday’s from 9am-3pm until November 29.
Free. All are welcome.
Steve Wadden is a settler photojournalist and avid fly fisher, living and working in unceded and unsurrendered, beautiful Unama’ki, Cape Breton Island.

Fall Food Festival (Carving Workshop With Michelle Sylliooy)
2024-10-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Potltoek Fishery Dome
We are hoping to host a weeklong event centered around the Fishery Industry. We have applied to the Gord Downie Blanket Fund for the majority of our events. We just did a workshop with Michelle Sylliboy and thought it would be a great addition to our Fall Lineup. We are applying to you to cover the cost of a Bone Carving Workshop. Through the Blanket Fund, we applied to host a Fall Feast with traditonal cooking techniques, a Salmon Hide Workshop, Excursions on the Annie Tena Barge, and Nightly Eel Fishing. The addition of the Michelle Sylliboy Carving Workshop will be a tie in to our activities. Michelle is a well known Artist and has showcased her beautiful whale bone carvings. This has intrigued us, and although she will be teaching cow bone carving, she will be teaching a whale tail design to participants, in keeping with our Fishery Industry theme. She will share stories behind her whale carving display and also her previous experiences with her art shows throughout the world. It is our hope that community members will be enticed to continue this
craft.
Potltoek Fishery Dome
107 Fishery Rd
Potlotek

Wasoqopa'q First Nation Harvest Feast
2024-10-05 13:00 - 22:00 | Rose Purdy Recreation Field, 15 Burbine Street, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, B5A 4V8, Canada
The Wasoqopa’q First Nation Harvest Feast will be held on October 5th, with festivities starting at 1:00 PM at the Rose Purdy Recreation Field. The event will feature traditional Mi’kmaw dance, crafts, a Big Bounce, and a Bingo Bonanza, along with live music from The Relatives. Food will be served from 2:00 to 3:30 PM, and the celebration will conclude with a fireworks display at 7:30 PM. The event is free, open to everyone, and will be alcohol and drug-free.

Mi'kmaw Food and Knowledge Initiative
2024-10-08 08:00 - 2024-10-29 17:00 | Millbrook Community Hall., 820 Willow St, Truro, Nova Scotia, B2N 6N7, Canada
The Mi’kmaw Food and Knowledge initiative is to further educate our staff about Mi’kmaw culture by facilitating food-focused workshops that promote sharing knowledge pertaining to traditional Mi’kmaw foods, their nutritional value, how to
harvest the ingredients, and how to prepare for consumption.
ln 2007, the Government of Canada released an updated version of the Canada Food Guide titled ‘Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide – First Nations, Inuit and Metis’ (see attached). The guide lists various traditional foods that the Mi’kmaq have been harvesting for thousands of years, and bow to incorporate those foods with typical western diets. Some traditional foods we will be using in the workshops include pkwimao, nme’juey, tapatat, and tiam (tentative menu attached). The project will demonstrate how adding traditional foods to our diets embraces the Mi’kmaw concepts of netukulimk and etuaptmumk by using traditional harvesting methods that promote sustainability, food security, and food sovereignty.

Blair J. Bernard Memorial Feast in the Highlands
2024-10-10 12:00 - 15:00
The Blair J. Bernard Memorial Feast in the Highlands is an annual gathering held on October 10, 2024, from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Hunter’s Mountain Airstrip. This year’s feast, called Jukwita’q, provides an opportunity for community members to come together in healing and unity, especially during the ongoing moratorium on moose hunting. The event honors Tiam (the moose) and emphasizes the importance of protecting moose and their habitat. Organized by the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR), the feast includes community participation and aims to strengthen relationships with the land. Everyone is welcome to attend, and participants are encouraged to bring a lawn chair.

Bear River First Nation Harvesters Gathering
2024-10-18 08:00 - 2024-10-22 20:00 | BRFN Cookhouse, 154 Reservation Road, Bear River, Nova Scotia, B0S1B0, Canada
The Harvesters Gathering has been held annually the 3rd week of October since 2014. The gathering starts with the lighting of a 4 day sacred fire, a smudge and a prayer. Throughout the week, we have meals to sustain our bodies, multiple activities, booths for learning and interactions, and a large potluck supper to close off the event. We take this time to appreciate and honor our hunters, gatherers and medicine carriers. This event is a community driven event where we can celebrate our elders, youth and providers and everyone gets to see and participate in this form of respect and ceremony. There will be multiple activities throughout the event

Mi'kmaq History Month Speaker Series: Ernest Johnson
2024-10-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre, 65 Treaty Trail, Millbrook Mi'kmaw Community, NS, b6l 1w3, Canada
Ernest Johnson will be at Millbrook Cultural & Heritage Centre on Friday, October 18th, at 2:00 PM for a discussion on tanning hides. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Tuesday Night Talk, free at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
2024-10-22 18:30 - 21:00 | Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, 1675 Lower Water Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1S3, Canada
“…to share our culture, our spirituality, our customs, our traditions, our honour, our integrity: to be able to share that with settlers, that way we learn from each other.” –Debbie Eisan
Debbie Eisan is an Ojibway Anishinabe kwe from Batchewana First Nation, and was born in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario.
Debbie will share personal experiences and stories that have shaped her identity – from her youth, military career and community involvement – to her current work today, and the cultural thread that has been woven throughout her life.
During her 36-year military career, Debbie served numerous tours of duty, highlighted by her involvement in the close out operation of the United Nations Base in Rwanda, Africa, and her posting to the HMCS Iroquois.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is also honoured to feature Debbie in our continuing exhibit, Ta’n me’j Tel-keknuo’ltiek: How Unique We Still Are, sharing her Indigenous and female perspective as a veteran in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Debbie Eisan, CPO2, CD2(Retired) Chief Petty Officer Second Class (Ret’d), is currently the Community Events Coordinator, Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax.

Mi'kmaq History Month Speaker Series: Clifford Paul
2024-10-25 13:00 - 14:30 | Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre, 65 Treaty Trail, Millbrook Mi'kmaw Community, NS, b6l 1w3, Canada
Clifford Paul will be at Millbrook Cultural & Heritage Centre on Friday, October 25th, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM to discuss Netukul’mk and Two-Eyed Seeing. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Mi'kmaq History Month Speaker Series: Gerald Gloade
2024-10-29 18:00 - 20:30 | Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre, 65 Treaty Trail, Millbrook Mi'kmaw Community, NS, b6l 1w3, Canada
Gerald Gloade will be at Millbrook Cultural & Heritage Centre on Tuesday, October 29th, at 6:00 PM to discuss types of food and the best seasons for fishing and hunting. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Mitji - Let's Eat!: Mi'kmaq Cooking for Kids (Kids Event, Age 10+)
2025-10-08 15:30 - 17:30 | Bridgewater Library, B-135 North Park St, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, B4V9B3, Canada
Celebrate Mi’kmaq history and culture by cooking delicious dishes from Mitji-Let’s Eat! Mi’kmaq Recipes from Sikniktuk by Margaret Augustine and Lauren Beck. Try new foods and learn about Mi’kmaq culinary history and traditions. Registration required, call 902-543-9222
