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Just a few months after the official launch of the Elevating Sportsmanship and Empowering Respect campaign, a collaboration between the Sports and Recreation Unit (SRU) of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake and Kahnawake Shakotiia’takéhnhas Community Services (KSCS), its effects can already be felt in community sports, including minor hockey.

A $50,000 donation from the Anglican Church will go towards helping Kahnawake archive its oral history, part of a project that coordinator Gerald Taiaiake Alfred says will ensure future generations of Kahnawa’kehró:non have access to easily forgotten information about the community.

Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.

While many items were on the docket for the fall Tioweró:ton community meeting, it was the topic of the newly announced Peacekeepers’ substation in the territory that took much of the attention during the session.

The mayor of Chateauguay said he’s invested in continuing to build a relationship between his community and Kahnawake that’s focused on respect and open communication, following a meeting held last week between him and Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chiefs.

“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.

When staffers at Canada’s Department of Finance sit down to hammer out a new federal budget, they’re working in the billions of dollars. 

A heated exchange between a community member and a Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief resulted in the abrupt end to a community meeting last week, with voices on both sides speaking out about inappropriate conduct.

The Daphne Art Centre in Tiohtiá:ke opened its doors once again this fall for its annual Indigenous art market and silent auction, a celebration of creativity, community, and Indigenous entrepreneurship.

Under a grey November sky, the sound of drums echoed through the streets, flags waved gently in the breeze, footsteps marched, and quiet reflection filled the streets of Kahnawake on Saturday as community members gathered for the annual Remembrance Day parade.