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Backstage at the McCord Stewart Museum, it’s quiet but not with stillness. A model adjusts her footing. A hairstylist perfects a braid. Someone laughs over a smudged lipstick that’s carefully reapplied with the same focus as beadwork.

The First Nations Executive Education (FNEE) Women and Leadership Program, given at the Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales (HEC) Montreal, celebrated its 10th cohort last week, which included two women from Kahnawake: Bronwyn Johns and Melanie Morrison.

Two years ago, Tióhrhano Diabo couldn’t pronounce the name his grandmother gave him. That changed when he embarked on his language-learning journey, enrolling in the Kanien’kéha Ratiwennahní:rats Adult Immersion Program run by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR).

The LAXNAI lacrosse tournament once again lived up to its reputation as the largest box lacrosse tournament in the world, drawing 69 teams across men’s, women’s, youth, and master’s divisions.

Concordia University has cancelled its annual powwow, what was once a fall tradition and longstanding cultural event that draws Indigenous students, alumni, and community members to the downtown campus.

For Inter Species Wrestling (ISW) promoter Michael Woods, it was an easy decision to do something to try and help out wrestler Jeff Cannonball - one of the best friends he ever made in the business - and his family after he was recently diagnosed with ALS.

For the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation next Tuesday, the Montreal Canadiens will be doing something special to showcase some of the Indigenous artists that live right outside Tiohtià:ke: they’ll be wearing beadwork pins of their logo, made by artists from Kahnawake and Kanesatake.

Sherry Archambault remembers her daughter Zoey Harnest as full of music.

“She loved music. All music, even classical music,” Archambault said. “She was a good, good soul.”

As part of the redevelopment of the area in the Southwest borough of Tiohtià:ke where the Canadian National trainworks once stood, work has begun on a new Indigenous open-air cultural space called Ionkwatia’tarò:ron park – “we are gathered” in Kanien’kéha.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) this week released July report cards, with only two at the Council table submitting reports of their activities and progress for the month.