By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter New Brunswick faces another lawsuit – the fourth – from an Indigenous group claiming territory as its own, this time from the Peskotomuhkati in the southwestern corner of the province. The representatives of the Indigenous people who live in the area that includes St. Stephen and Saint Andrews – also known as the Passamaquoddy – filed notice at the Saint John Court of King’s Bench on June 13 that it wants the provincial government to begin negotiating in good faith for its claim of Aboriginal title. The court application states that the province’s “denial of negotiations indicates that it arrives in court with unclean hands.” Unlike the lawsuits filed by eight Mi’gmaq First Nations along the eastern coast this year, the Wolastoqey Nation…
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