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When Konwasé:ti Mariah Kirby enrolled in university – a little apprehensive but mostly enthused – she didn’t know what the next six years leading up to her graduation would look like.

Tracey Deer distinctly remembers the first time she saw Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: she was studying film at Dartmouth College, and the documentary was being screened in one of her classes.

Earlier this month, Elizabeth M. Hoover, an environmental health and food sovereignty professor at the University of California, Berkeley, made a public apology for having falsely claimed to be Indigenous, when she is in fact white.

When the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) filed their civil lawsuit in March 2022 demanding McGill University cease work on an $850-million redevelopment project at the former Royal Victoria Hospital, it seemed as though the odds were stacked against them.

Sahawisó:ko’ Arquette tehowennanetáhkwen, Translated by Sahawisó:ko’ Arquette “Wa’téktahste’ tsi nitsawénhserons’,” wa’ì:ron’ ne Stacey Pepin né:ne Kanehsata’kehró:non.

When Shenoa Simon stepped onto the ice to present the hockey stick she designed to the player of the game Hilary Knight from the United States team, she was overcome with all kinds of nerves.

In 2016, Kenneth Deer travelled to the Vatican alongside a delegation of other Indigenous leaders to demand that pope Francis revoke three papal bulls – declarations made by popes – that provided the legal basis and religious authority for centuries of ongoing colonial genocide.

“I broke a cycle,” said Kanehsata’kehró:non Stacey Pepin, standing in front of the over 125-year old New Chancellor Day Hall, part of McGill University’s Faculty of Law.

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

Last week, Kahhori, a new Kanien’kehá:ka superhero, took her first steps in Marvel’s multiverse when the entertainment company announced her role in season two of their animated anthology series, What If…?.