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The district has a single campus in Truro. [5] Its levels are preschool, elementary, and secondary. The high school portion was built in 1981, [6] and by fall 2002 a K-8 addition was scheduled to open. [7] Previously the preschool and high school were in Truro, the elementary school was in St. Charles, and the middle school was in New Virginia. [3]
One of the successes of the Mi'kmaq–Nova Scotia–Canada Tripartite Forum is the Nova Scotia government and the Mi'kmaq community have made the Miꞌkmaw Kinaꞌmatnewey, which is the most successful First Nation Education Program in Canada. [5] [6] In 1982, the first Mi'kmaq operated school opened in Nova Scotia. [7]
Sister Dorothy Moore (born 1933) is a Mi’kmaw educator, Indigenous Elder, Residential School survivor, and social justice activist. [1] [2] Moore was born in the Mi'kmaw community Membertou, Nova Scotia. She was the first Mi’kmaw person in a Roman Catholic order, entering the Sisters of St. Martha in 1954 and taking vows in 1956.
It is shared by an inter-Nation forum among Mi'kmaq First Nations and is divided into seven geographical and traditional districts with Taqamkuk being separately represented as an eighth district, formerly joined with Unama'ki (Cape Breton). Mi'kma'ki and the Mi'kmaw Nation are one of the confederated entities within the Wabanaki Confederacy.
Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey is an organization that advocates for the educational interests of twelve Mi'kmaw communities in Nova Scotia. [1] [2] It is a corporation without share capital established for the purpose of supporting the delivery of educational programs and services by the Mi’kmaq Education Act of 1998 of the Government of Canada.
The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Mi'kmaw or Mi'gmaw; English: / ˈ m ɪ ɡ m ɑː / MIG-mah; Miꞌkmaq:, and formerly Micmac) [4] [5] [6] are an Indigenous group of people of the Northeastern Woodlands, native to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, [7] and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native ...
The Mi'kmaq name for the Truro area, "Wagobagitik" means "end of the water's flow". Mi'kmaq people continue to live in the area at the Millbrook and Truro reserves of the Millbrook – We’kopekwitk band. [3] [4] Acadian settlers came to this area in the early 1700s. The Mi'kmaq name for the Truro area was shortened by the settlers to ...
In the 2004–2005 school year it had 117 students, a low enrollment number. Due to new families enrollment increased from that point. In the 2009–2010 school year it had 147 students. In the 2010–2011 school year the school received two additional teachers and a student body of 151, with about 30 coming from outside of Truro.