• As expected, the heated membership issue and the equally intense Mercier Bridge work discussions dominated this past Tuesday’s summer community meeting. Land allotment also makes top list of topics.
  • It’s your fault, the International Union of Ironworkers is telling the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, for allowing its members to choose between employment close to home or their sworn allegiance to the local Union.
  • The sun was barely over the horizon when the women of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Team carpooled to join 2,250 other participants in the walk for the Pharmaprix Weekend to end Women’s Cancers.

Community Voices

  • Lisa's picture
    08/27/2010 - 05:14
    We are very independent and capable as a community in becoming and existing as self-sufficient. (That’s a topic for another blog.) So what does this have to do with back to school time?
  • Richard Tardif's picture
    08/10/2010 - 23:19
    It's plugged, finally. At a time like this, intelligent solutions, not finger-pointing and blame laying, is needed to prevent another ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Jessica's picture
    07/30/2010 - 11:56
    About a month ago, I wrote about adopting the goofiest five-year-old Doberman pinscher named Blaze. Unfortunately, the shelter neglected to inform my boyfriend or myself...
  • Alex's picture
    07/09/2010 - 20:31
    I’ve been composting for years using the lazy man’s method of throwing kitchen scraps into a pile in an unused corner of the yard. I added the requisite grass clippings and cuttings...
  • DPM's picture
    05/07/2010 - 10:04
    I know I know (sigh).......If you’re a reader of my previous Enchantments, you’ll recall I wrote to continue with more “Ride Stories”, however before I do...
  • Reaghan's picture
    04/23/2010 - 11:41
    When I first moved to New York almost eight years ago the first place I went to find work was the American Indian Community House...
  • Chad's picture
    02/08/2010 - 11:14
    "First they came ..." is a popular poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power...
  • Guddy Blog's picture
    01/21/2010 - 02:26
    It’s always good to have a trusted confidant in your life, someone to give you an unbiased second opinion. Be it a guru, a seer or in some cases...

Stay Tuned For More

  • Weekend to End Breast Cancer
    Breast cancer impacts 1 in 9 women in their lifetime and that number is just too high. Find out who from Kahnawake is participating in the August 28-29 walk. Renee Giblin has the story.
  • Lacrosse and hockey and much more...
    Midget Tean Iroquois win gold, Mohawks win bronze at President's Cup and the Kahnawake Condors take to ice in pre-season action. Richard Tardif and Jordan Standup report.
  • Oka Crisis revisited
    The Eastern Door continues its series on the Oka Crisis Twentieth Anniversary. Our reporters are tackling and taking a step back in time. See what the key players have to say and what Canadians are saying today.

Media Watch

  • Aboriginal groups looking at nuclear waste storage
    08/23/2010 - 19:24
    Some Aboriginal communities in northern Saskatchewan are interested in the possibility of storing nuclear waste — something the province hasn't made its mind up about yet. Last week, representatives from the Métis village of Pinehouse took a trip to Toronto to visit the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Canada's used nuclear fuel is stored at reactor sites, but the organization is looking for a community to host a national storage facility.
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  • Inuit get federal apology for forced relocation
    08/23/2010 - 19:15
    This story is interesting because it is another apology from the feds to our people, but what does it mean? Like the big one to residential school survivors a few years ago, it is what it is. Some will take it as an admission to a wrong committed many years ago, and heal from that. Others will say it is too little too late, and they will be right as well. The important thing is to learn from these mistakes and not commit the same ones again. The actual apology and potential financial compensation are just words if the essence of them fall by the wayside.
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  • How to reform the Indian Act
    07/30/2010 - 13:24
    Last week, Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, called for the federal government to repeal the Indian Act within the next two to five years.
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