Kjipuktuk, as it is called by the Mi’kmaw Nation, will host competitions in 16 sports over seven days and within 21 venues across Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Dartmouth, and Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia.

The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) help Indigenous athletes realize the collective potential of our bodies, minds, spirit and of our people – our hopes and dreams – the spirit strong, brave and true.

NAIG 2023 will bring together more than 5000 athletes, coaches and team staff from 756 Indigenous Nations celebrating, sharing and reconnecting through sport and culture with the help of 3000 volunteers.

We acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. We recognize the peace and friendship treaties signed between the British crown and the Mi’kmaq from 1725 to the 1760’s. We are all treaty people and we have rights and responsibilities as Mi’kmaq and settlers alike.