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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August 28, 2018Remembering the legacy of a tyrant
John A. Macdonald. Those two words and single letter have caused quite a stir in recent months, but for Onkwehón:we, it’s old hat.
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July 27, 2018Iroquois Nationals still a work in progress
The Creator's Game is more than just a sport for the Haudenosaunee, who know what it means to compete under their own flag and with their own passports.
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February 15, 2017Casino project has supporters, detractors
Unanswered questions. That’s what came out of the media’s meeting with Lee Thompson and his supporters, for his proposed new water park/hotel/casino.
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February 2, 2017Celebrating 25 years of telling your stories
What does it mean when an independent Onkwehón:we newspaper makes it to 25 years in operation? First off, it’s important to consider this: without a free press that asks the tough questions and covers the difficult stories, free of any influence from outside forces (including the Mohawk Council or anything that would jeopardize our integrity to report to the people as a whole), Kahnawake wouldn’t be what it is today.
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September 30, 2016Why Orange Shirt Day matters to everyone
This morning the community will gather to honour residential school survivors and remember the ones who never came home. Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started a few years ago in BC and based on a story from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack-Webstad, is as important a day as any other.
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October 16, 2015The federal government has failed us for a far too long
There is a lot more at stake in next week’s election for Canadian prime minister than who will run the country for the next four years (a minority government is most likely).
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September 5, 2015
Pushing for a stronger, more stable community
How do we push Kahnawake to the next level, beyond what exists here now? It’s something we wrote about in last week’s EASTERN DOOR, focusing mostly on the economy, but it is also something that is multi-faceted, extremely complicated, and it goes beyond mere dollars and sense.
