A new Mi'kmaw health authority years in the making has received nearly $9 million in federal funding to take more control of designing and delivering culturally safe care for Mi'kmaw people in Nova Scotia.

Tajikeimɨk — which translates as "to be healthy" in English —  will build on existing health and wellness programs in the province's 13 Mi'kmaw communities, while also collaborating with Nova Scotia's health authority to ensure "high-quality, culturally safe and wholistic approaches" wherever…