Editorial
Celebrating Indigenous history
As the country wrestles with the interim ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal issued Friday - that Canada is committing genocide against Indigenous Peoples – we mark National Indigenous History Month.
The power of the peoples’ judgment
The international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is in Tiohtià:ke this week, probing a legacy of missing children and unmarked graves associated with residential schools.
Men must stand up against violence
Last week marked the annual Moose Hide Campaign, a fast-growing, Indigenous-led movement coming out of BC with a simple goal, to unite folks around putting an end to gender-based violence once and for all.
Racism needs to be called out
“Stop drinking, Wab.” These words were uttered in the chamber of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly to Wab Kinew, who is the only First Nations premier in the history of the country.
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March 21, 2024What an emergency taught us
The fuel spill bordering Chateauguay and Kahnawake acted as a metaphor for the issues we face overall in Kahnawake. Allow us to clearly illustrate the how and the why of it.
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March 14, 2024Sit and talk about the weather
The old adage in journalism (or maybe we made it up, who knows?) is when things get a little dry, talk or write about the weather.
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February 8, 2024What a free press means to everyone
Where do you get your news? How do you know it’s accurate, or done with good intentions? Do you care?
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January 18, 2024An award for all to share
Lily Gladstone said she was representing everyone across Indian Country when she won the Golden Globe for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon.
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January 11, 2024The year of little progress
When we first started writing about the year that was, 2023, we read over the recaps (see pages 6, 9, 21) of the top stories of the year.
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November 30, 2023Ensuring town safety is a long process
When should you go ahead and banish someone from the community? That question has been bandied about after Josh Zachary was allegedly at it again, as reported on in last week’s paper.
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November 16, 2023Tobacco case sets jurisprudence
In the end, barring federal appeal, of course, Derek White beat both Quebec and Canada at their own game, in their own courtrooms, and made history in the process.
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November 7, 2022Mohawk Mothers blazing a trail
To challenge a giant head on is one thing. To do it representing yourselves in a foreign system, with no lawyers and nothing but a hunch, powerful protective instincts and bravery, is quite another. -
August 9, 2019An open letter to the Oka mayor
(Editorial by Steve Bonspiel) Dear Pascal Quevillon, You, and by extension the village of Oka, will never win. We, the first peoples of this land, will never stop fighting for what has always been, and always will be, ours.
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July 19, 2019Walking with the ghosts of the Oka Crisis
Twenty-Nine years after the Oka Crisis, Kanesatake is faced with an opportunity to dance with old traumas as they navigate new relations around the pine forest area with the old wounds that accompany it.
