Stories by Olivier Cadotte

Kahnawake youth are in Quebec City for the First Nations Education Council (FNEC) Inter-School Games, where athletes from communities across the province will compete in the name of betterment in sports through education.

Tuesday’s season-opening contest between the Junior A Whitby Warriors and Mimico Mountaineers wasn’t just the first game of Whitby’s Ontario Junior Lacrosse League (OJLL) season.

The Kahnawake Junior C Hunters went 1-2 over the weekend, with a 9-3 win against the Gloucester Griffins on Saturday breaking up losses to the Cornwall Celtics (12-6) and Nepean Knights (8-7 in overtime).

Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) returned home from Westwood High School with a new banner, this time claiming first place overall in the Reseau du Sport Etudiant du Quebec (RSEQ) Greater Montreal Athletic Association (GMAA) Lacrosse Sixes Tournament in the Bantam division.

The Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) Akweks’ field lacrosse team is 3-3 at the end of the regular season, finding themselves in a different position than in years past when they have consistently been at the top of the Greater Montreal Athletics Association (GMAA) standings - including last season, when they won the championship banner.

Kahnawa’kehró:non race car driver Dexter Stacey was back behind the wheel in the NASCAR Canada Series, taking part in the CarGurus 200 at the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park (CTMP) road course in Bowmanville, Ontario.

A fire that completely engulfed a white pickup truck in flames early Wednesday morning is officially being investigated, confirmed Kyle Zachary, spokesperson for the Kahnawake Peacekeepers.

There is still time to register for the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) Lessons from the Land camp, with the final day to sign up teens aged 13-17 pushed back until May 23.

The Community Radio Broadcasting and Online (CRABO) Awards recognized K1037’s Kanien’kéha language programming as well as its news director Paul Graif.

For the first time, a banner now adorns the rafters of the Kahnawake Sports Complex. And it isn’t just any banner: it is the one marking the Kahnawake Junior B Hunters reaching the highest possible level in their level of lacrosse - and succeeding, winning the team’s first-ever Founder’s Cup last year.