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After printing over 2,000 issues over the course of 42 years, Turtle Island’s longest-running Kanien’kehá:ka newspaper is calling it quits.  Indian Time, based in Akwesasne, ran its second-to-last print issue on November 14 and will run its last on December 19.  Editor Marjorie Skidders said they can no longer afford to print amid a stark plummet in ad revenue.  “It really is sad,” she told The Eastern Door.

More than four months after former Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer publicly acknowledged the “writing was on the wall” on Entain, an exclusive deal with the gaming company has been dissolved.

Representatives from Kahnawake were in Calgary last week for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) third national climate gathering. “Catalyzing First Nations Climate and Conservation Leadership for Transformative Change” was the title of the conference, which featured a range of panels and workshops.

Community member Gracie Diabo has continued to take her education journey to new heights, this time flying out to San Antonio, Texas, for the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

Local hip hop artist Will E. Skandalz, also known as Satehoronies McComber, has made the list of nominees for the International Indigenous Hip Hop Awards with his song Rez Dawgs featuring Cree-Naskapi artist Kong hitting the “Collaboration of the Year” category.

The Haudenosaunee Nationals women’s team made the inaugural Women’s World Box Lacrosse Championship one to remember in Utica this year, returning home with bronze medals around their necks.

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

When news broke in 2021 that the graves of missing children had been found at the former Kamloops Residential School, many non-Natives were shocked.

In a first for the local construction industry, more than 20 ironworkers at Rice Mohawk Steel have exercised their right to unionize.

Over the years, Ellen Katsi'tsakwas Gabriel has considered writing a book charting her history of activism and role in the Siege of Kanehsatake.