Editorial
A burning injustice
In the 1980s, when Big Mac boxes were still chewing a hole in the ozone layer, women of the 207 Longhouse stood up to the trucks treating Kahnawake as a garbage dump, an important moment in the beginnings of what would become the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).
Land claims on your mind?
With the recent federal government announcement of the imminent cleanup and return of the Old Radar Site in St. Remi to Kahnawake – over 160 acres and more than $1 million in cleanup money – it got us to thinking.
Class action lawsuit on tax rights?
Many issues frustrate Indigenous people, but none quite like how our taxation rights - in other words our inherent rights - are constantly flouted by businesses, “adjusted” by successive governments, and just ignored overall.
#CancelCanadaDay is as relevant as ever
A lot has changed in the past five years, but then again, a lot hasn’t. On July 1, 2021, many Canada Day events were cancelled, or at least dramatically scaled back, after the Kamloops announcement confronted Canadians with the genocidal reality of the residential school system.
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September 13, 2024Council’s priorities out of whack?
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is spending more time and money in the courts than they are on building trust and exercising true transparency.
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May 23, 2024Agriculture as a powerful tool
When we think of what producing our own food means, with the food sovereignty movement and everything that kind of economic power entails, we immediately think of the things that sustained us for so many years.
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May 2, 2024Holding them to account
After two years in the works, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)
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April 18, 2024Total eclipse of the community
Who knew people could make the eclipse political, but hey, this is Kahnawake, eh? Everything is political. Ha ha. From people saying it was planned, somehow (um, by who, exactly?), to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy outlining the traditional way our people viewed this event in the old days (a little tékeni entendre there), it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, even if you only read statuses on Facebook to see the latest conspiracy theories.
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April 11, 2024April is an important month
Cultural Awareness Month makes us all take notice of what’s around us – our living, breathing language and culture, but also our history and what it took to get us here.
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April 5, 2024The ongoing saga of Magic Palace
The evident closure of Magic Palace and the press releases by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC)
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March 28, 2024The word of the day is marijuana
As the lottery for three cannabis dispensary licenses heats up, with a preliminary list of potential names and locations released this week, many concerned community members brought up many valid points.
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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?
