Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn Inc.
Working to assert and implement our Inherent Aboriginal and Treaty Rights throughout Mi’gma’gi since 2015.
Promoting, Protecting, & Implementing Our Rights
MTI is a not-for-profit organization created by the 9 Mi’gmag First Nations in New Brunswick. Our objectives include promoting and supporting the recognition, affirmation, and implementation of the Aboriginal and Treaty rights and the right of self-determination. We work for our communities and community members. We work to provide a wider respect, understanding, and awareness of its member communities and their Mi’gmaq laws, rights, values, traditions, customs and practices to a broader population.
We work to promote, protect and advance the interest and rights of the Mi’gmaq of New Brunswick in a number of areas including:
– Forestry & Natural Resources
– Energy & Mines
– Treaty Education
– Land & Resource Development
– Fisheries
– Justice
Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn: ‘How we govern ourselves‘ or ‘Mi’gmaq people’s laws ‘
Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn was created in November 2015 to promote and support the recognition, affirmation, exercise and implementation of the inherent Aboriginal and Treaty Rights of its member First Nations, including the right of self-determination. We are empowered by our member communities to advance their Aboriginal and Treaty rights through negotiations with our Treaty partners, and to deal with issues of consultation and accommodation on behalf of eight of our member communities. Along with our Wabanaki brothers and
we entered into sacred, constitutionally protectedTreaties of Peace and Friendship with the Crown, and continue to exercise our Aboriginal and Treaty rights, including the rights to hunt, fish and gather up to the present day. The Treaties have been upheld, and these rights have been repeatedly proven and affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada and the Courts of New Brunswick. The Mi’gmaq have never ceded their Aboriginal Title of ownership and stewardship over the lands and waters of New Brunswick to the Crown.
