🇨🇦 Mi’kmaq & Parks Canada strike historic partnership in Nova Scotia🪶
https://thenarwhal.ca/mikmaq-parks-canada-nova-scotia

* many Mi’kmaq “refused to enter a national park because of the past.” In recent decades, relationship with Parks Canada has shifted
* both groups to jointly care for N.S. parks/heritage sites
* formalizes modern-day relationship while recognizing/implementing the Peace and Friendship Treaties, signed in the 1700s between Crown & east-coast Indigenous communities

#NovaScotia #Indigenous #Mikmaq

Mi’kmaq and Parks Canada strike historic partnership in Nova Scotia | The Narwhal

For the first time, Mi’kmaq will play a formal role in governing almost all of Nova Scotia’s national parks and historic sites through the Toqi'maliaptmu'k Arrangement

The Narwhal

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Si'gowigu's (sii·go·wi·guus)

Si'gowigu's means the month of March.

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Mes'tesg'g (me·sê·des·kêk)

Mes'tesg'g means to arrive late for/to miss

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Wantaqo'ti (wan·tahk·oo·di)

Wantaqo'ti means peace.

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Gispnapewit (gis·pê·na·be·wit)

Gispnapewit means to have a tired look.

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Gimtemit

Gimtemit means they cry secretly.

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Pipugwaqan (bi·bu·gwa·hgan)

Pipugwaqan is a wind instrument

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guntew (gun·dew)

guntew means rock or stone.

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Weltamultimg (wel·ta·mul·timk)

Weltamultimg is Friday.