Stories by Marcus Bankuti

Al Harrington woke up Wednesday afternoon to a rash of messages from friends who had seen his face pop up on TVA around lunchtime.

Years ago, when the detox unit at Montreal’s CHUM hospital was receiving only one or two Indigenous clients per year, staff confiscated an Onkwehón:we’s beading needles.

Kicking back with a livestream of “meet the candidates” night - again - is not everyone’s idea of a relaxing Wednesday evening.

Each day that 67-year-old Virgil Moar wakes up on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway, he turns to his companions, both decades his junior, and he says “Top of the morning to you.” He says it because - in his words - it sounds really damn cheerful.

As a power struggle over the employment status of the current-or-former Council clerk grinds Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) business to a halt, The Eastern Door has learned there was a Kanehsata’kehró:non alternative to the grand chief’s spouse for the job.

Photo by Marcus Bankuti Iohserì:io Polson has experience in the performing arts, but she had never given much thought to getting into film.

Courtesy Mohawk Council of Kahnawake No one will be held criminally responsible following more than three years of investigations into the housing scandal that rocked the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), the MCK announced Thursday.

File photo Council clerk - or former Council clerk, depending on whom you ask - Karen Heidinger, wife of Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK)

Courtesy First Nations Child and Family Caring Society The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) has put the brakes on a landmark $20-billion settlement agreement to compensate Indigenous victims of the child welfare system, ruling it does not pass muster with the requirements the tribunal laid out.