Common Questions

Our Mi'kmaq language group met and came up with the idea for a new name which means "the whole process of learning"--this whole name entails every aspect of learning and administration of education.
It provides to Mi'kmaq, for the first time, the capacity to:

Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey will have a law-making process in place and the organization will be responsible for its administration.

We will provide education funding and educational advice to Mi'kmaqs as well as help to establish standards for Mi'kmaq education.
We are staffed by professionals and report to a Board of Directors made up of the 13 Mi'kmaq Chiefs.
Our direction for education developments and improvements originate at the Band level and we facilitate and support individuals Bands to achieve their local education objectives and priorities as well as collective First Nation education issues.

For the first time in over a hundred years, we will be responsible for the education of our children.
Our children are our future. We need to pass on to them our culture, heritage and language to prepare them for the future.
Our children will graduate from school to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond and be fully knowledgeable in their Mi'kmaq language, culture, history and values--tools they will need to keep their heritage alive.

Our Objectives:

To assist and provide services to individual Bands in the exercise of their jurisdiction over education.
To assist individual Bands in the administration and management of education for the Mi'kmaq Nation in Nova Scotia.
To provide the Mi'kmaq Nation in Nova Scotia a facility to research, develop and implement initiatives and new directions in the education of Mi'kmaq people.
To coordinate and facilitate the development of short and long-term education policies and objectives for each Mi'kmaq community in Nova Scotia, in consultation with the Mi'kmaq communities.