Stories by Olivier Cadotte

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

This year, Jesse Lahache was committed to getting a fall ball baseball team in Kahnawake. Last year, the U15 coach held tryouts after the summer baseball season concluded but did not have enough players to get a team going.

As the sun began to set on Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered at Place du Canada in Montreal to commemorate the lives of six Indigenous people killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

The U13 Warhawks Purple’s hot streak is continuing uninterrupted after their sectional finals win against the Outaouais Rapides Espoirs Blue.

Good food, good tunes, and good times were shared at the Golden Age Club’s country jamboree, celebrating both the Club’s 40th anniversary and the memory of Buddy Goodleaf.

A record-breaking $115,000 was raised at the 2024 Tewathohnhi’saktha Business Golf Challenge, this year benefitting the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC). Each year, Tewathohnhi’saktha asks for proposals from potential beneficiaries, which are then deliberated by its board of directors.

The conclusion of the 2024 Canadian Box Lacrosse National Championships saw eight Kahnawa’kheró:non players win gold. The tournament was held in Regina, Saskatchewan, from August 12-17 in the Co-operators Centre.

The sounds of drumming and singing echoed through Museum Alley next to the McCord Stewart Museum last Friday morning for this year’s National Indigenous People’s Day ceremony organized by Land InSights, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Indigenous cultures.

Last weekend, Kahnawake’s Knights of Columbus Hall hosted FightQuest 55, the latest sellout show put on by the amateur mixed martial arts (MMA)

Win or lose, seeing the Montreal Canadiens play at the Bell Centre is always a special experience, and for at least one group of Kahnawa’kehró:non, Saturday’s game was one to remember.