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Looting of the Clara Mary at Ship Harbour Point

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October 25, 2024

Read more about the article Will 80k Newfoundlanders get another chance for Indian Status? A massive Court Trial starting this week wants to make it happen

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Will 80k Newfoundlanders get another chance for Indian Status? A massive Court Trial starting this week wants to make it happen

'Friends of Qalipu' set to represent 80,000 applicants to the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation this week.

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January 15, 2023

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Blatant Piracy or Innocent Desperation in Channel, Newfoundland?

When a St. Pierre vessel ran aground at Channel several local men boarded the schooner to desperately salvage what they could. Their actions that night would turn the lives of their families of Hare, Gillam, Vardy, Childs, and Strickland upside down.

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December 30, 2019

Genealogy / Newfoundland DNA / People of the Past / People of the Present

Conne River announces Beothuk-Mi’kmaq DNA research project funded by National Geographic

Mi’kmaq Miawpukek First Nation initiates the "largest DNA genealogy study of a First Nations group in Canada.”

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December 16, 2019

Genealogy / People of the Past

A 19th Century Mi’kmaq Tragedy in Newfoundland

When Captain Jock Mitchell, Chief of Newfoundland's Mi'kmaq in 1843, discovers heinous crimes amongst his people, he travels to Harbour Breton for justice.

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October 15, 2019

Genealogy / Newfoundland DNA / People of the Past

Mi’kmaq Connection in Isle Aux Morts?

George Prosser of Nova Scotia brings a new family story that brings several new elements to several families in Isle Aux Morts & the Blanchard's of the Bay of Islands.

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September 23, 2019