Stories by Eve Cable

Montreal-based tour guide Donovan King is done waiting for the government to address his concerns that laws regulating tour guiding in the city impose undue barriers on Indigenous people.

Tewehshon Nelson can’t spend enough time in the ringette net, this time joining forces with other promising young players who were hand-picked to take part in the Défi Ringuette Championships, a multi-day tournament hosted at the Batisseurs arena in Sainte-Julie last weekend.

The world of Native fashion is exploding lately, with more and more Onkwehón:we designers sharing their works on catwalks around the world. The latest venue for Indigenous fashionistas was in New Mexico, with some of Kahnawake’s own talent heading to Santa Fe for the first edition of Santa Fe’s Native Fashion Week.

Brooke Rice was representing Kahnawake and sharing ideas with Onkwehón:we from across Turtle Island and the world at the seventh edition of the International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference, this year held in the Maya Center Village of Stann Creek District in Belize.

Community members of all ages did their part to prepare the land for the planting season last weekend, coming together to care for the community garden project led by Tkà:nios.

For a full 24 hours a message from the Quebec First Nations delegation to the United Nations lit up Times Square, with passersby reading a message that called for respect for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the province.

When community member Brooke Rice was first encouraged to attend the Renew Our Power gathering in Brazil by a friend, she wasn’t sure if she had the appropriate experience to go.

Ken’ shitiakoién:ha ne Arsaniq, iah nonwén:ton teiakononhtonniónkwen tsi iorihowá:nen eniakó:ton’se' tsi iakónhnhe' tsi teiehiá:tons – teiakoterén:nonte’ tsi tóka’ teniontèn:tsha’ kí:ken atkarià:ktshera' tsi entiakorihónnien’ ótia’ke ken’ nitiakoièn:sa Inuit aiónttoke' tsi kanó:ron tsi niieweiennò:ten.

When Arsaniq was younger, she never considered tattooing would one day play such a huge role in her life.

When Innu poet Maya Cousineau Mollen was appointed to the role of senior advisor for First Peoples Relations at the Universite de Montreal in May 2024, she was hopeful that she would play a part in the ongoing project of reconciliation, and further the interests of Onkwehón:we students and staff.