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February 5, 2016Gold 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.
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February 5, 2016Wendy'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.
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January 15, 2016Canada'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.
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December 4, 2015Exploring 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.
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November 27, 2015Kanien’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)
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November 13, 2015Midwives 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)
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November 13, 2015Patton 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)
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November 6, 2015Hundreds 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.
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November 3, 2015First 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.
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October 23, 2015Students 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.
