We will not be silenced. We will not stand by while our rights, our waters, our salmon, our moose, & our medicines are destroyed. This land is Mi’kma’ki. These are treaty lands. And we are here to protect them—for our ancestors, for ourselves & for the generations yet to come. 7/

Nova Scotia Power generates millions if not billions of power from the Mountain and the Mikmaw people do not get any benefits from it plus over charge everyone in the province. This is Mikmaki! We are the protectors of the land and sea here in Nova Scotia. 6/

Our medicines, plants, and sacred foods are disappearing, destroyed by non-Native loggers while the province stands by and approves the destruction of Mi’kmaq resources and way of life. 5/

Instead of working with us as partners, the province has chosen to criminalize us while allowing corporations to strip our forests bare.

Logging operations destroy more than trees. They destroy moose habitat—already under threat—and they ruin salmon rivers and estuaries. 4/

Premier of Nova Scotia has further disrespected our people by calling our treaty-based fisheries “illegal.” His words last year were an insult to the Mi’kmaq and to the treaties that have been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada. 3/

Logging operations continue unchecked—even during the so-called “wilderness ban”—while the very First People of these lands were excluded. No revenues from these operations are shared with our Nations. 2/