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Dennen Phillips always loved theatre, but stage fright kept him in the audience for many years. It all changed when he got involved with Turtle Island Theatre, and Kevin John Saylor cast him in a production of Anything Goes in 2012.  But the timing of Phillips’ theatrical debut was ill-fated.

Whenever Iehente Gabriel sees a butterfly, she thinks of her friend Stephanie. Stephanie and Gabriel met in nursery school and quickly became kindred spirits.

With a projected budget of nearly $63 million for the next fiscal year, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)’s newly released annual report outlines Council’s priorities as it looks to pivot to accountability.

You wouldn’t know it was below freezing last Friday if you were standing inside the newly-built Mohawk-Cree teepees, where the warmth of the crackling fire and the smell of freshly cooked moose and goose meat filled the air.

When Mags Brien and her family heard that a teepee project originally located in Hudson was moving to Kahnawake to host traditional cookouts, they jumped at the opportunity to find a sense of home in between hospital visits.

The folks at Magic Palace, like many other businesses, barely made it through the pandemic. But after months of hard work, they’re back on their feet, and they’re ready to share the prosperity - with a $1 million donation to Kahnawake’s soon-to-be built Cultural Arts Centre.

Photo by Reina Ephrahim At the forefront of the Playground Poker Club and The Rail stands a grey rectangular building, once addressed to Steelhawk Homes.

Marcus Bankuti When Ruth Loft came home from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in the early 1960s, she felt like she didn’t fit in, like her own community didn’t understand her.

Courtesy Patrick Ragaz A hydraulic fluid spill from an excavator at a road maintenance construction site near Indian Way School led to an intervention by the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).