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Abigail Deer and Dantana Meloche weren’t expecting the latest addition to their family to arrive for a few more weeks – but their little bundle of joy arrived just before 3:30 p.m. on January 5, marking Kahnawake’s first birth of 2026.

Signups for the Chateauguay Raiders’ football winter camps are ongoing, and the football association is hoping to bolster its ranks of new players for the upcoming season, particularly in older age groups.

As girls’ lacrosse continues to grow in Kahnawake, five players from the community joined up with other athletes from Akwesasne, Six Nations, and Cornwall to form the Eastern Nations Elite at the Border Wars box lacrosse tournament.

Joseph So:se Montour was charged this week after a Facebook post from his account plunged the community and neighbouring areas into panic on Tuesday.

As 2025 draws to a close and we prepare to welcome 2026, The Eastern Door staff took a look back at the last 12 months of news in Kahnawake. And, as we find ourselves saying every year, what a year it has been! From major arts projects for some of Kahnawake’s finest acting talent to community protests about cannabis and traffic, we’ve recapped it all below.

The suspension of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections was easily one of the biggest local stories of the year, but there was plenty more taking place in Kanesatake/Kanehsatake in 2025.

It was a huge year for sports in Kahnawake, with championship wins and draft selections going along with medals, much effort, and lots of fun!

One need only view the photographs of the scene on the tarmac of the Montreal airport, snow crowding the frame, to know the significance of the moment as 62 Indigenous artifacts touched down on Turtle Island after 100 years at the Vatican.

A delegation of Indigenous community members and leadership stood shoulder to shoulder on the tarmac of Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport last Saturday, ready to welcome home more than 60 items being repatriated from the Vatican.

The project in Chateauguay near Kahnawake that has caused much spilled ink, online toxicity, and extraordinary measures to combat traffic in and around Kahnawake, has now paused for the holidays.