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As the last artist pricked their final dot of ink into a community member’s skin at midnight on Sunday, Karonhienhawe Nicholas breathed a sigh of relief, reflecting on another successful year of the annual Kanehsatà:ke Traditional Indigenous Tattoo Gathering.

The Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) has begun actively monitoring air quality in five different locations in the territory.  The air quality monitors have been set up at the Kahnawake Survival School, on Route 207 by Zachary Road, and on Peter Foxy’s Street near the JFK quarry.

Any hope that Kahnawake’s library would one day reopen in its current location were squashed Monday, when it was officially decided by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

The annual McGill University Powwow was a hit last Friday, especially with Kahnawa’kehró:non who showed up to dance, vend, and share in the celebration.

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.

After demands for a meeting with government officials went unheeded, a group of Oka residents pledging solidarity with Kanesatake whistleblowers are taking a step closer to enacting checkpoints to stop dump trucks carrying potentially contaminated soil from entering the territory.

When the buzzer rang at the Howard Darwin arena in Nepean last Sunday, it was hard to tell who was more excited – the players on the floor, or the fans in the stands who had travelled from Kahnawake, releasing confetti cannons and blasting air horns as they cheered.

“This is not a competition for the weak,” announced Beatrice Deer from the stage at this year’s National Indigenous Peoples Day concert in Tiohtià:ke’s Cabot Square.

Remains of Kanien’kehá:ka that date back prior to colonization found during construction at St. Joseph’s Oratory will be reburied at another location on the oratory grounds, The Eastern Door has learned, following an agreement struck between the oratory and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).  The remains of the three individuals were found in the spring last year as the oratory was removing an old asphalt road leading up its slopes, said Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle, the archeologist for the MCK who was there as a monitor when the remains were uncovered.  “Most of these ancestral remains that were found are over 1,000 years old,” she said.

Phyllis Fazio-Mayo has gotten used to her grandchildren correcting her Kanien’kéha – that’s thanks to their high degree of fluency that started with the Iakwahwatsiratátie Language Nest, a hub that has nurtured so many families in Kahnawake over the past decade and beyond.