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  • November 23, 2022

    Walkers honour residential school children

    Each day that 67-year-old Virgil Moar wakes up on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway, he turns to his companions, both decades his junior, and he says “Top of the morning to you.” He says it because - in his words - it sounds really damn cheerful.

  • November 22, 2022

    Winter Wonderland marks eighth year

    “It’s become a healing place. The community comes together to grieve, and heal, and enjoy together.” These are the words of Carla Skye-Delisle, the president of the Kateri Memorial Foundation (KMF), who for the eighth year running, has organized Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland in honour of her daughter Karonhiaráhstha Delisle, who passed away as a baby in 2013.

  • November 18, 2022

    All Rhodes lead to local student

    Iakoiehwahtha (Iako) Patton has just made history. The Kahnawa’kehró:non is one of the first Indigenous women in Canada to receive the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
  • November 15, 2022

    Delisle juggles first week as chief

    The newest Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief will only be the new guy for a few weeks, but he’s already got a lot on his plate.
  • November 15, 2022

    Devastated by housing scandal

    “This isn’t the result I expected. This is devastating.” Tammy Whitebean, who is one of at least 20 victims of the 2018 housing scandal that has left Kahnawake reeling, has been reacting to last week’s announcement that no criminal charges would be laid in the fraud investigation.
  • November 14, 2022

    Local passed over for Council clerk job

    As a power struggle over the employment status of the current-or-former Council clerk grinds Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) business to a halt, The Eastern Door has learned there was a Kanehsata’kehró:non alternative to the grand chief’s spouse for the job.

  • November 11, 2022

    The Kahnawake tobacco law tug of war

    The draft Kahnawake Tobacco Law faces another fumble on the way to the finish line, as the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

  • November 8, 2022

    By-election candidates draw few

    Upon entering the Knights of Columbus Hall last Thursday evening, a pindrop could be heard in the sea of empty chairs laid out for nearly 100 people. But by then, only six seats had been occupied.
  • November 7, 2022

    Mohawk Mothers blazing a trail

    To challenge a giant head on is one thing. To do it representing yourselves in a foreign system, with no lawyers and nothing but a hunch, powerful protective instincts and bravery, is quite another.
  • November 4, 2022

    No charges in housing investigation

    Courtesy Mohawk Council of Kahnawake No one will be held criminally responsible following more than three years of investigations into the housing scandal that rocked the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK), the MCK announced Thursday.