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Tewa’keranhkhwa Horn has grown up steeped in the history of ironwork, always aware of the legacy of her two grandfathers, Peter Marquis and the late Joe Horn.

When Kiona Akohseràke Deer took a chance and applied to an initiative that would send First Nations youth to visit sites honouring Indigenous contributions to the First and Second World Wars, she was thinking of her own family members and the long list of veterans from Kahnawake who have been a part of the Canadian military over the years.

A $50,000 donation from the Anglican Church will go towards helping Kahnawake archive its oral history, part of a project that coordinator Gerald Taiaiake Alfred says will ensure future generations of Kahnawa’kehró:non have access to easily forgotten information about the community.

Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.

Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) administrators were among the educators who travelled to Winnipeg last week to connect over the challenges and opportunities in Indigenous education today.

Kahnawake’s Alex Rice holds a mirror to her face, her eyes brimming with tears as she looks at her reflection. She is Marianne, one of a group of Cree siblings in Tasha Hubbard’s newest film Meadowlarks, who meet for the first time after being separated during the Sixties Scoop.

When Iakoiehwáhtha Meloche Patton first told her parents she was planning to complete her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, they felt a twinge of sadness that their baby would be so far from home.

The mayor of Chateauguay said he’s invested in continuing to build a relationship between his community and Kahnawake that’s focused on respect and open communication, following a meeting held last week between him and Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chiefs.

“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.

Eight years ago, Kahnawa’kehró:non Courtney Montour was flipping through the pages of The Eastern Door when a headline caught her eye: “Indigenous derby crew ready to roll overseas.”