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August 10, 2023Mohawk Mothers harassed by security
Archaeological work at the former Royal Victoria Hospital site has once again come to a halt after a private security firm hired by the Societe quebecoise des infrastructures (SQI)
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July 11, 2023Indigenous rocket team is out of this world
Justice Bressette-Fleming was in high school when she was recruited to Queen’s University, but it wasn’t until she logged onto a Zoom call with the university’s rocket team that she sealed the deal.
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July 5, 2023Six years, two children, and one degree later
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.
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June 27, 2023Q&A: Anonymous Kanehsata'kehró:non speak out
With an influential open letter and a trove of documents, an anonymous group of Kanehsata’kehró:non has brought countrywide attention to grave issues of land, safety, and the environment in the community.
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June 22, 2023Kanesatake chiefs fight land grab on ground
For a few years, John Nicholas has had his eye on a parcel of federal land near Highway 344 and Second Avenue Terrasse Raymond.
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June 7, 2023Obomsawin looks back – and ahead
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.
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June 6, 2023No apology, retraction on land declaration
Decades ago, Kanehsata’kehró:non Lynda Nicholas asked her children to promise never to sell the plot of land that had once belonged to her father.
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May 16, 2023Preventing the pretendian problem
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.
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April 26, 2023Grand chief signs erroneous declaration
It has been revealed that Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille signed a document attesting to a band member’s ownership of a Kanesatake lot, seemingly overstepping his authority and sewing confusion over land that already belongs to somebody else.
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April 21, 2023Landmark settlement agreement
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.
