Ms. Que Banh<p>A <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CulturalReclamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalReclamation</span></a> is underway in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mikmaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaw</span></a> community of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Sipeknekatik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sipeknekatik</span></a> in what we now call <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NovaScotia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NovaScotia</span></a>. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> is situated just eight kilometres from the site of the former <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Shubenacadie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shubenacadie</span></a> Indian <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResidentialSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResidentialSchool</span></a>. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndianDaySchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianDaySchools</span></a> operated on the reserve from 1894 to1996. During centralization in the 1940s, the federal government <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ForciblyRelocated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForciblyRelocated</span></a> many <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaq</span></a> from around Nova Scotia to two reserves, one of which was Sipekne’katik.</p><p>Together, these <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> policies tried to strip Mi’kmaq of connection to land, language, culture & dentity. But the Mi’kmaq are still here, still strong.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/StudentJournalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentJournalists</span></a> in the Reporting in Mi’kma’ki course – a collaboration between the University of King’s College & Nova Scotia Community College – headed to Sipekne’katik to learn more.</p><p>They met <a href="https://beige.party/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> members who shared their time & expertise to pass on teachings, from ribbon skirts to medicines to culture & language in the classroom.</p><p><a href="https://www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/reclaimingculture/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aptnnews.ca/ourstories/reclaim</span><span class="invisible">ingculture/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCulture</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Reclamation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reclamation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Maritimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maritimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>