Stories by Eve Cable

A petition led by youth from Dawson College CEGEP urging the province to exempt Indigenous students from French language requirements has been extended another month, giving more people time to voice their opinion on the students’ demands.

The annual McGill University Powwow was a hit last Friday, especially with Kahnawa’kehró:non who showed up to dance, vend, and share in the celebration.

Jason Picard-Binet, owner of moccasins brand Bastien Canada, is sick and tired of seeing the cultural appropriation of Indigenous designs in the fashion industry.

When news broke in 2021 that the graves of missing children had been found at the former Kamloops Residential School, many non-Natives were shocked.

The history of The Eastern Door was the topic of the 2024 edition of Cornell University’s prestigious Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, led by the newspaper’s founder, Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer.

Leading child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock told The Eastern Door this week that she found Canada’s excuses for issues with the implementation of Jordan’s Principle to be “very disappointing,” after attending a non-compliance motion at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)

It took a lot of work for Tahohtharátye Joe Brant to become the University of Victoria’s first-ever PhD graduate in Indigenous Language Revitalization.

Each Onake paddler thinks of something different while on the water. Some sing songs to keep them focused, others think about any anger they might be holding onto, using their rage to spur them on further.

This fall, Karonhianóron Dallas Canady-Binette will be starting their graduate studies in anthropology at McGill University. Canady-Binette, who is from Kanesatake, was excited to take McGill’s 300-level beginner Kanien’kéha course, but they ran into a roadblock: the course is technically classified as an undergraduate course, and as a graduate student, Canady-Binette wouldn’t be permitted to take it.

Tuition for undergraduate and graduate programs will be free to all Onkwehón:we students from communities in Quebec, starting this fall.