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Front and centre, myself as Joseph and my younger brother, bottom left as a shepherd. My mom “didn’t recognize the housecoat.” (Courtesy Kathleen Rowe)

The state of dozens of tombstones and crosses in the Catholic cemetery has some community members concerned. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door )

Barbara and Clarence Nepinak are part of the new nation-wide research project to fight diabetes. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door)

Les Albany (left) and Johnny Hemlock both started ironworking in New York in 1946. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door). The year was 1946.

Engineer Jay Dearhouse and his partner Parker Jacobs wanted to improve Internet service in Kahnawake, and started a business about a year-and-a-half ago that would help solve the problem.

One colour was spread throughout Kahnawake Friday in a glowing reminder of the legacy of residential schools and their impacts on those forced, coerced or convinced to attend the institutions.

This morning the community will gather to honour residential school survivors and remember the ones who never came home. Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started a few years ago in BC and based on a story from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack-Webstad, is as important a day as any other.

Kanien’kehá:ka women in Kahnawake wore shawls over their head and shoulders during the early 20th century. (Courtesy McCord Museum)

By: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door The “inquisition” on traditional dances, songs and rituals of our ancestors mainly touched the western province up until the mid 1950s since most eastern First Nations were than more likely abiding to the Indian Act and the Christian values, being in touch with Europeans for a longer period.

MCK chief Christine Zachary-Deom was one of many who spoke at the opening of the Co-cathedral St. Antoine de Padoue in Longueuil Wednesday night, and embraced the collaboration between the municipality and Kahnawake.