Welcome to the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation web site

Our community is an ancient village used by the Maliseet people since time immemorial. The Maliseet Nation (Wolastoqiyik) was traditionally a migratory nation, migrating our traditional territory from the coast of the Bay of Fundy to the St. Lawrence River. The Madawaska Maliseet First Nation was one of the three major villages or stop over areas during the Maliseet annual migrations.

This web site will help you know more about our community and our nation. You will learn past and present issues such as culture, politics, achievements, services, role in education and also economic development projects.

Please,take the time to visit our web site, as information pours in, it will grow more and more for you to enjoy and to acquire knowledge.

I Chief Joanna Bernard have been Chief of the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation for the past eight years, I was re-elected on August 18, 2011 for my 5th mandate. This will be my last political mandate as Chief. I have committed to the band members that I would move our community forward by focusing all my work and personal time to completing the highway development project. I continue to commit to finishing what we have started. The economic development and the well-being of the community is what we need to enable us to be self-sufficient and independant. Education and Economic Development are my first priorities and have been for the past eight years.

Affiliations:

Co-Chair of the Assembly of NB Chiefs

Executive Director of Atlantic Policy Congress

Chiefs’ Committee on Economic Development

First Nation Education  Board

Audit Committee APC

AAAEDIRP Committee (Atlantic Aboriginal Economic Development Integrated Research Program)