Publishing since 1992 from Kahnawake Kanien'kehá:ka Territory

Stories by Daniel J. Rowe

Daniel J. Rowe is an award-winning reporter and photographer originally from BC. In addition to journalism, he produces and edits a Shakespeare-inspired blog and podcast called the Bard Brawl. His writing has also appeared in the Montreal Gazette, Canadian Press, U.S. Lacrosse magazine and elsewhere. His facial hair rotates with the season, and he’s recently discovered the genius of wearing a cowboy hat. He wrote for The Eastern Door from 2011 to 2019.
  • June 4, 2019

    A colonial reminder remains six decades later

    A map from 1871 gives a snapshot of what Kahnawake once looked like before a massive waterway project sliced through the community.

  • June 3, 2019

    Foundation ready to swing and help hospital

    Team PK (Travis Zachary, Jeffrey Diabo, Teken Diabo and Kenneth Montour) is one of the many foursomes who take part in the biggest fundraising events of the year to benefit the local hospital.

  • May 30, 2019

    Developer offers Mohawk land back to Kanesatake

    Activist Ellen Gabriel (pictured here in 2017 protests) is not comfortable with the agreement between Oka landowner Gregoire Gollin and the Mohawk Council, as details of the exchange have not been revealed.

  • May 28, 2019

    Cross heading to the land of the Celtic cross

    Tahothoratie Cross (middle with Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer (left) and MCK grand chief Joe Norton) will fly across the Atlantic for the first time in his life to be immersed in the language of the Emerald Isle, as part of a Gaelic-Kanien’kéha exchange beginning Friday.

  • May 23, 2019

    Kirby to share true history on island stage

    Wahsontí:io Kirby will bring her acting, singing and overall creating skill to PEI again this summer, as she engages with the island's visitors through theatre.

  • May 16, 2019

    Frustration mounts as brush fires rampant

    A brush fire on Highway 132 last Thursday near Survival School was the just one of many this spring emergency services are growing increasingly frustrated with.

  • May 15, 2019

    Teenage photographer hears call of drums

    An aspiring teenager from Verdun, Felicity Hamer took the bus across the bridge in the mid-‘90s for her first look at an Onkwehón:we powwow a half-decade after Kahnawake began hosting the event.

  • May 13, 2019

    Residency hearings concluded, registrar coming

    Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer explained that though there was a very poor turnout, the amendment to the Residency Law would go on to the next stage of the expedited process.

  • May 10, 2019

    White beats Quebec tax charge, ready for constitutional challenge

    Derek White was acquitted of defrauding the Quebec government of taxes, but guilty of breaking the Exise Tax Act. A constitutional challenge in January will appeal that charge.

  • May 10, 2019

    Whitebean pleads guilty, ends Project Malbac case

    Robert Whitebean’s long journey through the court system as part of Project Malbec ended Friday with a guilty plea, fine and some community service.