Marcus Bankuti

One year of Community Watch

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by Marcus Bankuti - July 28, 2022July 25, 2022 0262

Marcus Bankuti The Eastern Door No matter the price of gas, at 6 p.m. Jeremiah Johnson gets in his car and goes for a drive. He won’t be home for three hours. He doesn’t go far, mind you - he’s cruising the quiet streets of Kahnawake, his eyes peeled for anything

Fox with mange needs help

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by Marcus Bankuti - July 25, 2022 0410

Courtesy Catherine Arsenault Kahnawake’s Animal Protection Department has set two live traps in an effort to catch and treat a fox with mange on Tekakwitha Island. The department is urging Kahnawa’kehró:non to report any sightings of the fox and to avoid disturbing the traps or the animal itself. Mange is characterized

Halloween to hit town with drive by horrors

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by Marcus Bankuti - July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 0355

Courtesy James Day It seems appropriate that this weekend will be hot as hell. Thanks to local horror fanatic James Day, the community will once again get to drive through “Halloween in July,” an early Halloween treat to benefit the Kateri Food Basket. Day, who has run the Haunted Woods event

Graduate focuses on language and healing

by Marcus Bankuti - July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 0453

Courtesy Alicia Ibarra When Alicia Ibarra learns a new word in Kanien’kéha, she shares it with her tóta. “I know for my tóta, it hurts that she doesn’t have Kanien’kéha, so it means the world to me to be able to bring that back to her,” Ibarra said of her grandmother,

Aviation dreams ready for take-off

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by Marcus Bankuti - July 12, 2022July 11, 2022 0484

Courtesy Iako’ta:raien Delaronde It’s quieter in the sky without a co-pilot, and Iako’ta:raien Delaronde found herself floating in the moment. She had been nervous in the days before takeoff, but thousands of feet from the ground, she felt at ease. “It’s beautiful being up in the air,” she said. “You can see

Powwow booth broadens vendor participation

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by Marcus Bankuti - July 8, 2022July 8, 2022 0373

Courtesy Robin Tekaiakenhtha Marquis When Daisy Lahache was growing up, it was her dream to sell her crafts at the Echoes of a Proud Nation Powwow. “I think for Indigenous Peoples, there’s such a sense of pride in being able to set up at powwow and sell your things, your handmade

Kahnawake’s bus drivers have no quit

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by Marcus Bankuti - June 29, 2022June 28, 2022 0430

Marcus Bankuti The Eastern Door When Jodie Gilbert’s daughter, Mia Delisle, started at Kateri School, the two would wait together at the bus stop. Like many children, Delisle wanted to be more independent as she got older, and by sixth grade she insisted on waiting alone. After all, she didn’t need

One Blood reunites in tribute to late singer

by Marcus Bankuti - June 20, 2022 0317

Courtesy Michael Montour In the mid-2000s, when the most interesting thing on most cell phones was the game “Snake,” there was a heavy metal show nearly every weekend around Kahnawake. One Blood - led by singer and bass player Adam Shoniatariiá:kon Cross - was a premier attraction on the local scene.

Lou Lou crowned Miss Exotic World

by Marcus Bankuti - June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 0916

Lauren Ashley Jiles Third time’s a charm, but that’s not why Kahnawa’kehró:non Lauren Ashley Jiles - a.k.a. Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière - felt calm as she took to burlesque’s biggest stage to face its fiercest competition. As she performed at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Tournament of Tease in Las

Children speak out on Bill 96

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by Marcus Bankuti - June 9, 2022June 6, 2022 0496

Courtesy Robin Delaronde Outside, a downpour. Rain dampened a “day of action” against Bill 96 at Karonhianónhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienstáhkhwa, but the school community’s indignation could not be extinguished by a little water. The Friday, May 27 event was moved to the gymnasium, where the school’s staff and some 230 students assembled