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  • March 28, 2024

    Uproar mounts over Northvolt 

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Ross Montour was in Montreal this week alongside environmental groups calling on Quebec to submit the Northvolt mega-lithium battery plant to an environmental assessment process.

  • February 20, 2024

    Supreme court affirms child welfare law

    Indigenous families, community members, and advocacy groups convened at a downtown Ottawa hotel last Friday, singing, dancing, drumming, and cheering.

  • December 11, 2023

    Feds appeal to fight self-determination

    The White and Montour tobacco case is a major victory for Kahnawa’kehró:non and a big set-back for the federal government’s unilateral self-government policy.

  • December 8, 2023

    Sacred masks return home

    Jessica Loft Cross had long known she’d one day become responsible for the care of a collection of Hatowi masks, just not when.

  • November 2, 2023

    Historic child welfare settlement approved

    Kiona Akohseràke Deer was moved between different group homes and foster care units at least 20 times before she even turned 18.

  • September 8, 2023

    Will First Nations' input fit the bill?

    The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) agreed that a decision recognizing the existence of systemic discrimination raises vital concerns.

  • June 8, 2023

    Kahnawake says no to Quebec

    A no man’s land stood between two rooms of the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Montreal last Friday: on one side, Quebec held a public dialogue session surrounding the province’s French language laws in the context of Indigenous rights, and on the other, the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL)

  • May 17, 2023

    Working group lobbies for harvesting rights 

    Brandon Rice had gone hunting with a few others in the winter of 2021 to stock up on a couple more deer in the freezer – he hunts year-round, according to what’s in season.

  • May 3, 2023

    Legal action taken against Bill 96

    Two of the largest Indigenous lobby groups in the province have joined forces to launch a legal challenge against Bill 96, now known as Law 14, citing the ancestral rights of First Nations in education.

  • May 2, 2023

    Kahnawa’kehró:non lobby for United Nations inclusion 

    Over 2,000 people registered for the 22nd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), the largest international gathering of Indigenous Peoples, according to the United Nations (UN).