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Atlantiar Knekk Tepaw- Exploring Indigenous Roots in the North Atlantic

September 6, 2018

Upon the coastal lands of Northern Spain and Southern France, there lives a culture and people that has called this…

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Call for Applications! Atlantic Indigenous Mentorship Network: The Kausattumi Grants Program

May 4, 2018

The Kausattumi Grants Program (Kausattumi is Inuttitut for ‘the dawn’) is an initiative of the Atlantic Indigenous Mentorship Network that…

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Cape Breton University Celebrates Treaty Day

October 1, 2018

October 1 in Nova Scotia marks not only the beginning of Mi’kmaq History Month, but also the celebration of Treaty…

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Cape Breton University Researchers Awarded $850,000 Research Grant for the Re-Discovery of an L’nu Traditional Medicine

December 11, 2019

Working alongside Elders of Membertou First Nations, and Mr. Tuma Young, Dr. Matthias Bierenstiel, Professor of Chemistry at Cape Breton…

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Cape Breton University to Host PLANS and IHIM Health Sciences Summer Camp

July 16, 2018

This summer, CBU will be hosting an African Nova Scotian & Indigenous Health Sciences Summer Camp led by PLANS –…

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CBU Hosts ARCASN Conference

October 22, 2018

On October 11-13, 2018, the Indigenous and Intercultural Diversity in Nursing conference was held on the Cape Breton University campus.…

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Excelling in Multiple Disciplines: Meet Neylan Stevens

June 30, 2022

Be it academics, dancing or playing volleyball, Neylan Stevens is a Cape Breton University student who excels in all areas.…

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Happy Father’s Day! Meet Chief Denny and his daughter Lenita

June 19, 2020

Chief Leroy Denny, of Eskasoni First Nation, has been serving his community for ten years and has been involved with…

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Health Sciences Summer Camp Students Have a Blast at CBU

August 3, 2018

Recently, CBU welcomed students from Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities to campus to learn about education and career opportunities…

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L’nuwey Tplutaqan Mawio’min Research Awarded Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation Connection Grant

February 20, 2019

Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in Canadian prisons, and victimization and vulnerabilities are not well understood. While there has been a…

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Paving the Way with Tiannie Paul – The First Mi’kmaw Woman to Graduate from CBU’s Engineering Diploma Program

April 2, 2019

When Tiannie Paul crossed the stage on November 3, 2018, the entire audience at the Membertou Trade and Convention Centre…

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