Hannah Martin

Hannah Martin is an L’nu’skw from Taqamiju’jk (Tatamagouche), Mi’kma’ki and is a member of the We’kopekwitk (Millbrook) First Nation community.
Hannah is a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights. She also takes great pride and humility in carrying on ancestral knowledge and traditions that have been passed down to her through her family, such as basketmaking, speaking the Mi’kmaq language, hunting, fishing, foraging, and learning about our non-human relations on the land. Hannah acknowledges her reclamation of Mi’kmaw Knowledge as the most important endeavor in her life journey, and attributes this education to her Elders, Knowledge Keepers, family, community, and the land.
In 2019, Hannah also received her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Indigenous Studies at McMaster University as a Joyce/Crawford Loran Scholar. Over the years, she has had the privilege of working with and for Indigenous peoples at the local, national, and international level, with a special focus on the injustices faced by Indigenous peoples from the impacts of resource extraction industries. Hannah has completed internships with La Fundacion Nueva Esperenza in Rabinal, Guatemala, and the Maori Law Review in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She has worked as an associate with First Peoples Group, an Indigenous consulting company in Algonquin Territory, and with the Tatamagouche Centre as Peace and Friendship Project Coordinator. Hannah has also engaged in advocacy work at the United Nations level as a former North American focal point of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. Through these positions, she has strengthened her leadership, community organizing skills, public speaking presentation and facilitation skills. Hannah’s goal has always been to bring her learning back to her homeland to contribute positively to her own nation. Now, she has the privilege of serving Mi’kmaw communities through her role at the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq as the Coordinator of the Nuji Kelotoqa’tijik Earth Keeper Network.