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  • August 23, 2023

    New artwork honours Orange Shirt Day 

    There’d been a storage container sitting in the parking lot at Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) for some time now – plain and orange.

  • June 29, 2023

    Traumatic birth experiences at Anna Laberge

    Kaniehtisakhe Albany was 35 weeks and five days into her pregnancy when one of her unborn twins decided she was ready to make her entrance into the world.

  • June 6, 2023

    No apology, retraction on land declaration

    Decades ago, Kanehsata’kehró:non Lynda Nicholas asked her children to promise never to sell the plot of land that had once belonged to her father.

  • April 27, 2023

    New sports program for special needs kids

    Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) is calling it “Little Critters.” The program will be divided into two streams, “the little rascals” for five to eight-year-olds, and “the fisher cats” for children aged nine to 12.

  • April 11, 2023

    Indigenous housing project to open this summer

    Miyoskamin is a Cree word that means “the heart of innovation,” “groundbreaking,” or “breaking the mold.” “I just thought that what we’re doing is exactly this,” said executive director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal (NWSM), Nakuset, who is Cree.

  • March 30, 2023

    List of names of sexual abusers includes Jesuits in Kahnawake and Spanish, Ontario

    Students at the Garnier Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario, subsisted on tea and mush. They had no eggs or butter or sugar.

  • March 21, 2023

    Party caps off three-year health study

    Local participation in a massive study on the health of First Nations youth could have a lasting benefit for Kanehsata’kehró:non, a fact celebrated by families and researchers on Saturday at Rotiwennakéhte elementary school.

  • March 16, 2023

    Kahnawake seeks probation deal with Quebec

    Ryan Montour knows firsthand how intimidating it can be to face the community after being released from prison. “This is the hardest place in Canada to be on parole,” Montour once told the federal government.

  • February 23, 2023

    Community grieves overdose victim

    Community members grieve the loss of 23-year-old Kanehsata’kehró:non Brayden Jay Shakohawitha Etienne to overdose after a years-long battle with a drug addiction.
  • February 16, 2023

    Bell knew of faulty pole 10 months before massive outage

    A local telecommunications company told Bell 10 months ago that a utility pole it owned needed to be replaced. Then on the coldest day the region had seen in years, the pole failed, cutting the power for hundreds of households on the coldest day in years.