In Nova Scotia, Mi’kmaq people mark 300 years of treaty — and broken promises – The Narwhal
June 12, 2026
Three centuries after their ancestors signed a treaty with the British Crown, Indigenous people returned to the same grounds, finding joy, grief, pride and an urgent question: When does a promise finally get kept?
Three hundred years after their ancestors chose peace on the same ground, the Mi’kmaq people returned to the Fort Anne National Historic Site in Mi’kma’ki.
Mi’kmaq leaders and community members gathered at what was then called Port Royal on June 4, 1726, when their ancestors signed a Peace and Friendship Treaty with the British Crown.
Under a bright Nova Scotia sky, they came back to the same ground to celebrate, to grieve, to demand and to hope.
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