This artist infuses living Mi'kmaq history into his work

Jordan Bennett returns to porcupine quillwork as a source of inspiration. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOchSuCchc

"In Bennett's print, he references the everyday life of Mi'kmaq people. Bennett says, "The entirety of this piece, colour-wise, represents different stages of the day, all the different cycles on the day of the season, the life. For me these represent clouds. These designs and many different nations across Turtle Island, that's what they represent — clouds, cloud designs."

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Mawkina’masultinej: Let’s Learn Together! – Show Me Your Math

Inquiry projects that draw on Mi'kmaw community culture.

http://showmeyourmath.ca/mawkinamasultinej-lets-learn-together/

"Mawkina'masultinej: Let's Learn Together! is a series of inquiry projects that draw on Mi'kmaw community culture. The ideas for these projects have come from students' Show Me Your Math submissions and from conversations with elders in Mi'kmaw communities. While the projects are designed to emphasize the mathematics learning, they are cross curricular and are designed to engage students in collaborative inquiry into relevant topics." 

(Some projects are still under development, but there are a number of links and resources references for each of the Inquiry topics.)

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Chemist and Mi'kmaq scholar team up to study healing powers of birch bark

Learning about traditional healing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/birch-bark-masgwi-1.4223810

From article:

Two professors at Cape Breton University — a chemist and a Mi'kmaq scholar — have been awarded $150,000 to study the healing powers of birch bark. Tuma Young, assistant professor of L'nu studies, and Matthias Bierenstiel, associate professor of chemistry, are combining traditional knowledge and fundamental science to determine how and why the bark works to soothe skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. "For many years we didn't really know what exactly was in it that was good for it," said Young. "We just knew it was good for it."

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Made from this land: Quill art

Mi'kmaw handiwork

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/made-from-this-land-quill-art-1.5414552

P.E.I. artist Melissa Peter-Paul drives to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to collect roadkill and revive a family tradition that was lost for generations: quill art. 4:22

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Mi'kmaq speakers create new immersion curriculum

The Alaqsite'w Gitpu School offers an immersion program 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/listuguj-mi-kmaq-lola-vicaire-indigenous-language-vicky-metallic-1.5181411

From the article:

"They may be a small minority, but first-language Mi'kmaq speakers are trying to make a big difference at the Alaqsite'w Gitpu School on the Listuguj First Nation. The school has been offering a Mi'kmaq immersion program for students from kindergarten to Grade 4 since 2002 and is now taking the next step and developing its own curriculum. Since September, Mary Ann Metallic, 66, has been working with a group of Mi'kmaq speakers in an effort to improve their fluency, along with their reading and writing. They are using those improved skills to create the new curriculum for students in their native language."

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