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#LandBack: #Mikmaq Nation Acquires More Than 80 Acres
Native News Online Staff
Tue, September 8, 2026"The Mi'kmaq Nation has added 83 acres to its land base on its northernmost reservation in Maine. The land is adjacent to a community center and tribal housing where 48 residents live.
"According to a press release, the parcel's former owner offered to sell the land to the Nation before listing it for sale. The Tribe partnered with land conservation nonprofit #TrustForPublicLand. #TPL raised the required funds to meet the landowner's acquisition timeline so the land could be transferred to Mi'kmaq Nation as soon as possible.
"The acquisition — called #Pugweliget , or 'living together in a group' — is the Nation's second this year. In June, it obtained the title to 3,400 acres in Aroostook County, Maine, doubling its land holdings.
"While the latest acquisition immediately benefits the residents of the housing center, Shannon Hill, Environmental Health Director for the Mi'kmaq Nation, said all tribal members will have access to land for foraging, hunting, fishing, and cultural practices.
"The Mi'kmaq Nation is honored to have been entrusted with another land return this year. Although this property has much fewer acres than the 3,400-acre land return earlier this summer, each land return is unique and meaningful in its own way," Hill said in a press release. "The ability to take a walk and connect with the land as we did thousands of years ago without fear of trespassing is of far greater importance here than the number of acres."
Pugweliget is the latest milestone in an effort dubbed the Tributary Land Returns, a collaboration between the five federally recognized Wabanaki Tribes and seven non-native organizations, to return over 50,000 acres to Wabanaki communities across 11 different projects. Once completed, the TLR will be the largest return of private lands in U.S. history. Seven of the projects have been completed since 2019."
Source:
https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/land-back-mikmaq-nation-acquires-more-than-80-acres/#SolarPunkSunday #LandConservation #SpendTimeInNature #CulturalPreservation #Wabanaki #MikMaq #LandStewards #Stewardship #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #MaineFirstNations
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Today’s word of the day in #Mikmaq
Sespete'lmatl (ses·pe·deel·ma·dêl)
Sespete'lmatl means to worry about.
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Some wins and losses for #Maine #FirstNations... Wins include #WabanakiStudies in schools,
#IndigenousPeoples access to #MaineStateParks, and including Wabanaki input in #LandPlanning and #ConservationEasements. Also, #LD1900 , which, "provides authority to the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and the Mi’kmaq Nation to develop tribal power districts to provide electric power within their respective trust lands." In other words, electric power generated by the tribes for the tribes!Learn more:
https://wabanakialliance.com/132nd-maine-legislature-scorecard/#MainePol #USPol #WabanakiAlliance #NativeAmericanNews #Mikmaq #Maliseet #PenobscotNation #PassamaquoddyNation #WabanakiConfederacy #CulturalPreservation
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Today’s word of the day in #Mikmaq
Amasgate'lmatl (a·mas·ka·deel·ma·dêl)
Amasgate'lmatl means "He/she feels thoughtful of him/her/it."
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Today’s word of the day in #Mikmaq
Wi'gatigno'guom (wii·ga·di·gên·oo·guom)
Wi'gatigno'guom is a library.
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Today's word of the day in #Mikmaq
Lmu'j (êll·muuj)
Lmu'j is a dog.
Yes that is my 15 year old pupper.
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#Biocultural families: Study centers #Indigenous priorities in connections to #environment
by Seth Truscott, August 11, 2026
"Washington State University horticulturist #JeffreyWall partnered with members of the #Mikmaq #FirstNations people of #Canada to create a new, #IndigenousCentered model of the connections that link humans with plants, animals and the environment.
"Wall interviewed over a dozen traditional knowledge keepers in Unama'ki, the #CapeBreton Island homeland of the Eskasoni Mi'kmaq. He asked tribal elders and allies to describe #BioculturalConnectivity — the relationship between human cultures and local #ecosystems — as they see it. The findings were published in Environmental Science & Policy.
" 'I wanted to show the connective forces that the Mi'kmaq prioritize,' Wall said. 'The goal was to be in tune with their deep #CulturalHeritage, traditions and the #indigenization of the future that they want to promote.'
"With more than 66,000 registered members, the Mi'kmaq are a resilient people native to the U.S. Northeast and Canada's Atlantic provinces who are revitalizing their language and growing their landholdings. Wall's work can guide future mapping and inform the institute's land acquisition strategy.
"The project reflects the concept of #TwoEyedSeeing — understanding the world from both #Indigenous and #Western approaches — introduced by Mi'kmaq elders Albert and Murdena Marshall.
" 'There is a growing understanding that environmental conditions can improve if we bring more Indigenous ways of knowing and being into the conversation,' said Lisa Young, executive director of the Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources. 'Maintaining a #reciprocal relationship with the land is in itself a way to protect and preserve it.' "
Read more:
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-biocultural-families-centers-indigenous-priorities.html#SolarPunkSunday #EnvironmentalAwareness #EnvironmentalStewardship #TraditionalKnowledge #Technology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge
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Indigenous youth in P.E.I. tee it up for a day of golf
The #Mikmaq Confederacy of P.E.I. held its first-ever Indigenous Youth Golf Day on Wednesday. About 20 golfers teed off, some for the first time. CBC’s Taylor O'Brien was there.
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Today's word of the day in #Mikmaq
Gajuewj (ga·ju·ewch)
Gajuewj is a cat.
(Yes this ginger menace of a Siamese/Thai is my cat Oliver)
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#capebreton culture walks explores #Mikmaq, Gaelic and Acadian traditions
Moosebait Adventure Tours is behind the wilderness walks that connect the region's shared history. The CBC's Ethan Hunt has the story.
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