Following a guns-drawn police raid of a cannabis shop at the Potlotek First Nation, members of various Mi'kmaq communities block highways across Nova Scotia. RCMP flee the Potlotek community and leave behind seven of their vehicles, which are subsequently smashed, urinated in and have their tires flattenned. In Sipekne’katik, Chief Michelle Glasgow explained, "It’s not about ‘weed shops’ being raided. It’s about the government asserting jurisdiction over our communities and over our unceded Mi’kmaq lands... If we allow this to continue, then we are allowing the assimilation of Mi’kmaq into a society that was meant to destroy us."

Durbin Feeling was a Cherokee Nation linguist who wrote the primary Cherokee–English dictionary in 1975. He is considered the greatest modern contributor to the preservation of the endangered Cherokee language. Durban was a Cherokee first language speaker, not learning English until he attended school. He began reading the syllabary when he was 12 and used it to write letters in Cherokee home to his mother after being drafted into the Vietnam War. He published the Cherokee-English dictionary in 1975 and went on to teach Cherokee at University of Oklahoma, the University of Tulsa, and the University of California. He authored or contributed to many books and research articles about Cherokee. For his contributions to the preservation of the Cherokee language and Cherokee culture, Feeling was named a Cherokee National Treasure by the Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. has described Feeling as "a modern-day Sequoyah" and said that "[e]verything we are doing for language revitalization is because of Durbin.” In 2019, the Cherokee Nation chose Feeling as the first signatory of the Cherokee Language Speakers Roll.

On this day in 1885, Cree warriors led by war leader Kapapamahchakwew attacked and killed nine officials, clergy and settlers at Frog Lake. Included in those killed was Indian Agent Thomas Quinn, remembered by historian James Daschuk as "a mean-spirited, petty little man completely lacking in compassion." One incident in particular illustrates the conditions which led to this attack in which Quinn summoned the natives around Frog Lake to the ration house in promise of food only to declare to them that it had been an April Fool's prank and they would receive nothing. This occurred during an era of real starvation and serious disease outbreaks for Cree peoples in the area. The band involved in the attack was led by Mistahi-maskwa (Big Bear) who although he was against the attack itself, he had done much to try to improve conditions for his people, making formal pleas to the federal government about unfulfilled terms of land and Treaty 6 rights that were agreed upon in 1879. Although Mistahi-maskwa cautioned against the attack, the war leader of the band, Kapapamahchakwew (Wandering Spirit) led the people in the attack which is considered a part of the Cree uprising in conjuction with the Métis uprising led by Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. After killing Quinn and other settlers, they took the desperately needed rations which had been withheld as well as some hostages. Two days after the killings, the church, the rectory and all the buildings of the Frog Lake settlement were burned. Kapapamahchakwew, Manchoose (Bad Arrow), Nahpase (Iron Body), Apischaskoos (Little Bear), Kitahwahken (Miserable Man), and Pahpahmekeesick (Walking the Sky) would be killed by the Canadian state for their acts of resistance in the largest mass hanging in Canada's history.