Mi'kmaq Nation Vice Chief Richard Silliboy poses with a basket he wove. Silliboy will research PFAS uptake in ash wood and other culturally significant plants as part of the EPA grant. (Emma Davis/ ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...

It was author Amanda Peters’ father who suggested she write about his people, the Mi’kmaq. In “The Berry Pickers”, her debut novel, readers learn about the real Mi’kmaq people from Nova Scotia who ...

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