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Growing up, Ahkhwesahsró:non Chrystalynn Jock did not always attend the Akwesasne Powwow, but every year she saw her home community buzzing with a flurry of visitors, crowding the streets and flowing into local shops.

Who knew people could make the eclipse political, but hey, this is Kahnawake, eh? Everything is political. Ha ha. From people saying it was planned, somehow (um, by who, exactly?), to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy outlining the traditional way our people viewed this event in the old days (a little tékeni entendre there), it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, even if you only read statuses on Facebook to see the latest conspiracy theories.

When Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs began recording for Ark: The Animated Series, it was the height of the pandemic in the summer of 2020.  With studios shuttered, she managed to set up a makeshift recording booth in her closet – with sound equipment shipped from Los Angeles all the way to her Toronto apartment – where she recorded her lines for the role of Alasie.

For Samantha Doxtator, Monday's total solar eclipse over Haudenosaunee territory is more than a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It represents a recalibration that gets to the heart of what it means to be Haudenosaunee.

Grade five Karonhianónhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienstáhkhwa student Kiyedinaci Ottereyes-Lahache went to the Quebec Indigenous Science Fair in Gatineau last Thursday hoping to impress – both with his dapper burgundy velvet suit, and with his project, “The Science of Scents.” And impress he did, netting both the first-place prize in his age category and a special award for communication – awards that come with combined prize winnings of $1,000.

Wherever Bernice Diabo Montour was, her next adventure couldn’t have been too far away. Her daughter Noreen Montour remembers this well, with her childhood punctuated with travels across Turtle Island.

Takahawi Beauvais had never tried making digital art on a computer when she decided to head down to the Kanien'kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR)’s dedicated Art Center, where community members can access art supplies and resources for free.

The smell of fry bread and wood fire wafted through the crisp evening air Wednesday evening as Kahnawake families took in the Winter Carnival’s first-ever night market.

Around 10 years ago, a linguist with experience in Haudenosaunee languages, Karin Michelson, was invited by three Oneida women to assist them in going through the archives of one of the world’s best-known museums.

Glorianne Dickinson will always think of the home on Old Malone Highway across from the pharmacy as Ma’s. It’s been in her family since the late 1800s.