Micmac

The emerging horrors have been particularly felt within hockey, which traces its origins to Indigenous Micmac peoples playing 1600s-era “ricket” with wooden pucks in Nova Scotia.

Aroostook Band of Micmacs Chief Edward Peter-Paul said the law, passed before his tribe was federally recognized in 1991, hinders his tribe from accessing economic incentive programs available to tribes nationwide.

Members of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, and Maliseet nation will demonstrate traditional Penobscot songs, brown ash pounding, basket making, drumming, singing and dancing.

Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded the money to the Aroostook Band of Micmacs via the Indian Housing Block Grant program.

At the time, Caplin and Anthony Barnaby, both Canadian Micmac Indians, lived in the same building as the women.