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  • September 27, 2024

    Contamination confirmed, injunction sought in Kanesatake dumping

    Quebec is seeking an emergency injunction against nearly 20 defendants, mostly Kanehsata’kehró:non, revealing that soils used to illegally fill in lots on the Lake of Two Mountains were contaminated, confirming long-held suspicions.

  • September 26, 2024

    Scary incident at Survival School

    On Tuesday morning, Kahnawa’kehró:non Tammy Whitebean saw rumours on social media that something serious was going on at Kahnawake Survival School, where her son is just weeks into seventh grade.

  • September 25, 2024

    Deer delivers Cornell lecture

    The history of The Eastern Door was the topic of the 2024 edition of Cornell University’s prestigious Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, led by the newspaper’s founder, Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer.

  • September 23, 2024

    Jordan’s Principle failures heard at tribunal

    Leading child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock told The Eastern Door this week that she found Canada’s excuses for issues with the implementation of Jordan’s Principle to be “very disappointing,” after attending a non-compliance motion at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT)

  • September 20, 2024

    Powwow comes to Concordia

    The crowd at Concordia’s third annual powwow was an enthusiastic one - with nearly 100 joining an intertribal held at the university’s Loyola campus last Friday.

  • September 20, 2024

    Vigil highlights state violence

    As the sun began to set on Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered at Place du Canada in Montreal to commemorate the lives of six Indigenous people killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

  • September 20, 2024

    Where is the real transparency?

    Editor’s note: An earlier version of this editorial was published on Facebook on Monday. It has since been updated to reflect subsequent events.

  • September 19, 2024

    Council files suit vs. Montour

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has countersued the former head of Mohawk Online, accusing him of defamation and breach of contract for statements he made to The Eastern Door outlining the demise of the community’s internet gaming arm.  According to the MCK’s filing, former Mohawk Online CEO Dean Montour was warned by Council on June 25 not to disclose any confidential information about the community-owned entity, of which MCK is the sole shareholder.

  • September 18, 2024

    Quebec minister visits to talk land

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo met with Indigenous affairs minister Ian Lafrenière for lunch at the Kahnawake Brewing Company this past Friday to talk about land that’s still owed to the community.  The province still owes 211 acres of land to Kahnawake to make up for the expansion of Highway 30 - a promise that’s stalled for several years now.

  • September 17, 2024

    Doctoral grad focuses on documenting

    It took a lot of work for Tahohtharátye Joe Brant to become the University of Victoria’s first-ever PhD graduate in Indigenous Language Revitalization.