Stories by Eve Cable

Teiotenharò:se’ Stacey doesn’t remember a specific moment that made her want to complete the Kanien’kéha Ratiwennahní:rats Adult Immersion Program, she’s just always been certain that it would be a part of her journey as a young Kanien’kehá:ka woman.

One award is impressive, but a hat-trick of awards in one evening is something to be proud of.

In the heart of Hochelaga, in Montreal’s east end, splashes of neon colour consume the side of an otherwise grey residential building. Shades of turquoise, pink, blue, and green are encircled in orange and yellow, forming the shape of three abstract faces, the bottom one featuring an open third eye.

For the 18th year, Jim Foote has donated a bicycle to a lucky Kateri School student, and this year’s winner, Lacey McComber, is thrilled about her new wheels.

Iakowennaiéwas Falen Jacobs has added a lot to her life over the past four years. She’s gained a new job title, a new baby, and somehow along the way, two more academic qualifications, putting a second master’s degree and two graduate certificates to her list of educational achievements.

It was a big night for powerhouses in film and media at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards, with Onkwehón:we amongst those accepting awards in Toronto.

Back in 2022, an empty chair was placed at the front of a conference room in a convention centre Edmonton, Alberta.n

Entebbe, Uganda, is more than 11,000 KM away from Kahnawake, but when Lacey and Lanny Lazare touched down there for the International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Restorative Development in Africa, they realized that the two Indigenous communities had more in common than one might expect.

Kahnawa’kehró:non participating in the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)’s first-ever Motion Commotion colour run didn’t just run through clouds of eco-friendly coloured powder being thrown at them during their race - many picked up handfuls from the floor and showered themselves with it, and some even rolled in piles of the stuff, committing fully to the rainbow of the day.

In the year 1999, local artist Skawennati was commissioned to make a timeline of 1,000 years of Indigenous history.