UINR was formed fifteen years ago, in 1999 when the five chiefs at the time signed the official papers to set up an organization to represent Unama’ki Mi’kmaq communities on natural resources and the environment.
The signatory Chiefs were Allison Bernard (Eskasoni), Lindsay Marshall (Potlotek), Terry Paul (Membertou), Morley Googoo (We’koqma’q), and Mary L. Bernard (Wagmatcook).
To commemorate our 15 years of work in Unama’ki, we put together a special issue of UINR MARTEN that looks back over the past five years at the people, projects, and partnerships that make UINR tick!
If you’d like to learn about the first ten years, check out our previous chronology of those first years.
For this roundup we pick up where we left off in the summer of 2009 and bring you right up to 2015.