\u00a0By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter New Brunswick faces another lawsuit \u2013 the fourth \u2013 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 \u2013 also known as the Passamaquoddy \u2013 filed notice at the Saint John Court of King\u2019s 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\u2019s \u201cdenial of negotiations indicates that it arrives in court with unclean hands.\u201d Unlike the lawsuits filed by eight Mi\u2019gmaq First Nations along the eastern coast this year, the Wolastoqey Nation… <\/p>\n
\u00a0By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter New Brunswick faces another lawsuit \u2013 the fourth \u2013 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 \u2013 also known as the Passamaquoddy \u2013 filed notice at the Saint John Court of King\u2019s 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\u2019s \u201cdenial of negotiations indicates that it arrives in court with unclean hands.\u201d Unlike the lawsuits filed by eight Mi\u2019gmaq First Nations along the eastern coast this year, the Wolastoqey Nation... <\/p>\n