Exploring Theme: "Indigenous History"

Destruction of Kepe’kek, on the harbour’s Dartmouth shore, led to ‘an eviction’ CBC Indigenous: Every year on Dec. 6, filmmaker Catherine Martin holds a gathering on the Dartmouth shore of Halifax Harbour to honour her ancestors on land that was once the Mi’kmaw community of Kepe’kek, or the Narrows, also called Turtle Grove.  Standing on land connected to her family history, Martin,...

Kejimkujik National Park is home to one of eastern North America’s largest collections of petroglyphs Molly MacNaughton · CBC News CBC Indigenous: On the shoreline of Kejimkujik Lake not far from Merrymakedge Beach, Jonathan Oickle crouches over a large outcropping of slate rock. He dampens the smooth slate to accentuate a detailed engraving of a woman’s peaked cap, one of more than 500 carvings...