Publishing since 1992 from Kahnawake Kanien'kehá:ka Territory

Stories by Jessica Deer

Jessica Deer was a staff reporter from 2015-2018 who started out in 2008 as a summer student.
  • February 5, 2016

    Gold and silver finishes for local figure skaters

    Kahnawake Figure Skating Club member Konwanake:ren Diabo landed a gold medal at last weekend's competition. (Courtesy Jennifer Jacobs) Several members of the Kahnawake Figure Skating Club landed podium-finishes at last weekend’s Sud-Ouest regional competition for the 2016 Jeux du Quebec.

  • February 5, 2016

    Wendy's Revenge is a tale of pirates, spaceships and art

    Tricia Livingston and Walter Scott  brought the story of Wendy’s Revenge to life on Friday night at Concordia’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

  • January 15, 2016

    Canada's first Indigenous pathologist is from Kahnawake

    Kona Williams is the only Kahnawa’kehró:non to pursue a career in forensic pathology. (Courtesy Kona Williams) The New Year marked a new chapter for Kahnawa’kehró:non Kona Williams with the start of her first job as a full-fledged forensic pathologist at one of the most extensive forensic science facilities in North America.

  • December 4, 2015

    Exploring Indigenous peoples past, present and future

    A collection of Skawennati Fragnito’s ‘machinimagraphs’ hangs at Ellephant, a new exhibition space in Montreal. (Courtesy Christine Redfern) Kanien’kehá:ka artist Skawennati Fragnito’s work is front and centre at a new solo exhibition space in the heart of Montreal’s Quartiers des Spectacles.

  • November 27, 2015

    Kanien’kehá:ka musicians rock packed house in Old Montreal

    Six Nation’s Logan Staats played an intimate show at the Ashukan Cultural Space in Old Montreal last week. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door)

  • November 13, 2015

    Midwives gather to discuss traditional birth practices

    Kahnawake’s youth took the lead teaching culturally safe sex education to guests at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network’s “Sexy Health Carnival.” (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door)

  • November 13, 2015

    Patton crawls to gold in Chateauguay swim meet

    Cadence Patton trains three times a week with her coach Samantha Harwood at the Centre Sportif Polydium in Chateauguay. (Courtesy Penny Berg Patton)

  • November 6, 2015

    Hundreds light the night for missing and murdered women

    The Buffalo Hat Singers, a Montreal-based group, perform at the opening of the vigil to support Native women in Montreal’s Place des Arts on October 29.

  • November 3, 2015

    First female Native American judge visits Montreal

    Judge Diane Humetewa with some Indigenous students at McGill’s First Peoples House. (Courtesy U.S. Consulate General, Montreal) The first female Native American judge marked her first trip to Canada last week with a two-day visit to Montreal, making a number of appearances in Kanesatake and throughout the city.

  • October 23, 2015

    Students learn the ins and outs of emergency rescue

    Third-year students from the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care program at John Abbott College received hands-on experience in fire suppression and vehicle extrication from the Kahnawake Fire Brigade.