News
Community steps up for victims
Helen Paavola, chief of the small community of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, flew into her homelands this week, finding nothing left but ashes. Not even the road bridges are left standing.
Iroquois Caucus agrees to entente with Assembly
A draft resolution supporting the renewal of a protocol agreement between the Iroquois Caucus and Assembly of First Nations (AFN) was passed unanimously at the AFN Annual General Assembly last week, affirming the Iroquois Caucus’s role in representing the interests of member communities.
Joining forces against Alberta separatism
The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) has joined leaders of Indigenous communities in Alberta in defending treaty rights from a burgeoning separatism movement in that province.
Language laws raised at international forum
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has turned to the international community for support in combatting Quebec’s language laws, which community leaders worry could inhibit the resurgence of Kanien’kéha.
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October 9, 2015March honours Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Ten years later, crowds marched through Montreal to attention to the tragedy of hundreds of Indigenous women and girls in the country who have been murdered or are missing.
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October 9, 2015Kahnawake joins fight against city's sewage plan
The plan to dump eight billion litres of untreated sewage into the St. Lawrence River continues to draw criticism from both sides of the river, and it just got political.
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October 2, 2015Gathering honours residential school victims
"We are suffering from a great sorrow, almost like death," said Charlie Patton told the gathering of people who came to pay tribute to residential school survivors on Wednesday.(Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door.)
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October 2, 2015Jesse Deer Scholarship awarded to aspiring journalist
Eastern Door cartoonist and former summer student Darian Jacobs is the latest recipient of the Jesse Deer Memorial Media Scholarship.
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September 25, 2015Survival students introduced to new Eagle Spirit Academy
Kahnawake Survival School students heading into their final year of high school were at McGill University Friday being introduced to something unique.
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September 18, 2015Tewa board nomination protest gets ugly, cops called
Saturday morning’s nomination period for the Tewatohnhi’saktha board of directors’ election didn’t quite pan out the way electoral officer Timmy Norton envisioned.
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September 11, 2015Deer switches focus and looks to future of independence
University student Brooke Deer began the start of the new fall semester this week with a clear goal in mind: Independence.
