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Tracey Deer distinctly remembers the first time she saw Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: she was studying film at Dartmouth College, and the documentary was being screened in one of her classes.

Decades ago, Kanehsata’kehró:non Lynda Nicholas asked her children to promise never to sell the plot of land that had once belonged to her father.

More than 30 months after Quebec revoked its permit to operate, G&R Recycling is again in the headlines for its yet unresolved environmental damage, forcing politicians to answer for why more has not been done on a file that has plagued Kanesatake for years.

Earlier this month, Elizabeth M. Hoover, an environmental health and food sovereignty professor at the University of California, Berkeley, made a public apology for having falsely claimed to be Indigenous, when she is in fact white.

When it comes to living life, Kahnawa’kehró:non James Day said he goes by one motto: “You’ve got to think outside the box, because soon enough, you’ll be in one.” And, as usual, thinking outside the box has led to another eccentric business venture for Day, owner of Haunted Dogs, a restaurant providing all sorts of outlandish fast-food options.

It has been revealed that Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille signed a document attesting to a band member’s ownership of a Kanesatake lot, seemingly overstepping his authority and sewing confusion over land that already belongs to somebody else.

When Shenoa Simon stepped onto the ice to present the hockey stick she designed to the player of the game Hilary Knight from the United States team, she was overcome with all kinds of nerves.

Miyoskamin is a Cree word that means “the heart of innovation,” “groundbreaking,” or “breaking the mold.” “I just thought that what we’re doing is exactly this,” said executive director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal (NWSM), Nakuset, who is Cree.

You’d be forgiven if you at first didn’t notice the unassuming, six-foot-three figure in a black fedora interacting with the nearly 30 Kahnawa’kehró:non from Kahnawake Minor Hockey Association (KMHA)

At a certain point in the journey to get to Ōtaki, New Zealand, for the Māoriland Film Festival, the 22-strong group travelling to participate began to wonder if they would ever get there.