Stories by Eve Cable

Dancing is always medicine for those who enter the powwow arena, and that was particularly true at last weekend’s Seminole Powwow in Florida, where the floor was filled with red dresses, as Onkwehón:we from across Turtle Island joined together for a special dance to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

Waking up after an intense day of lacrosse is always accompanied by some aches and pains, but this weekend’s Founders Cup tournament in Pennsylvania left Team Kahnawake exhausted for days, after putting up a valiant effort that led them all the way to the championship game.

This fall, Concordia University is hoping to make its degrees more accessible to Onkwehón:we students, with the addition of new bridging programs that aim to break down barriers to higher education.

Kanesatake and surrounding communities came together this week for a search and rescue mission that had a happy ending, with a 14 year-old girl found safely in the Pines after losing her way on a frigid night.

Home care nurses at the Turtle Bay Elders’ Lodge now have a brighter area to work from, having moved into a new modular trailer at the rear of the building - leaving the old office space to be turned into a new living room for residents.

A pediatrician who had been operating out of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) for nearly 25 years had his last day in-office this week, with his patients expected to be transferred to a new doctor in the coming weeks.

Daisy Lahache was seriously considering giving up on her modelling career when she got a call worth waiting for from The Rocky Mountain Agency.

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from the Mohawk Mothers that sought to overturn a lower court’s decision to lift a safeguard order initially granted to the group for work being undertaken at the site of the former Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University.

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

A legal case brought forward by a man from Fort William First Nation, on behalf of his children with special educational needs, has resulted in deeper discussion of the possibility of Jordan’s Principle being used for legal fees related to First Nations children’s access to essential services.