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Courtesy Robin Tekaiakenhtha Marquis When Daisy Lahache was growing up, it was her dream to sell her crafts at the Echoes of a Proud Nation Powwow.

According to information from the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC), for the first time ever, the risk of contracting Lyme disease is now considered significant in the territory.

In late April, the Quebec National Assembly (QNA) quietly passed Bill 15, a reform to the Quebec Youth Protection Act that reinforces provincial jurisdiction over Indigenous child welfare, making it the only province in Canada to continue to assert legal jurisdiction over Indigenous children.

Marcus Bankuti The Eastern Door When Jodie Gilbert’s daughter, Mia Delisle, started at Kateri School, the two would wait together at the bus stop.

Marisela Amador The Eastern Door It took Harvey Satewas Gabriel anywhere from 15 to 17 years to translate the entire Bible from English to Mohawk.

Marisela Amador The Eastern Door The community gathered this year for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate, share a meal, play games, and end the day in dance.

Courtesy Patrick Ragaz A hydraulic fluid spill from an excavator at a road maintenance construction site near Indian Way School led to an intervention by the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).

Simona Rosenfield The Eastern Door Kahnawake Environment Protection Office, in collaboration with Bird Protection Quebec (BPQ) visited 10 bird boxes located along the old Kahnawake Survival School campus to band the recently hatched tree swallows on Friday, June 10.

Courtesy Tekahnekake Stacey “As a kid, I always wanted to be fluent in my family’s language,” said Tekahnekake Stacey, an upcoming graduate of the Kanien’kéha Ratiwennahní:rats Adult Immersion Program run by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:- na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.

Courtesy Government of Canada Over the past year, Kimberly Murray has been working with survivors of the Mohawk Institute – the longest operating residential school in Canada, searching for unmarked graves.  And now, she begins the gruelling work of taking the search across Canada.