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November 8, 2021Indigenous child welfare fight continues
Last Friday, the federal government filed an appeal to challenge a Federal Court decision that upheld a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) order to compensate Indigenous children who were victims of the child-welfare system. -
October 21, 2021Trial examines pre-contact trade
The fourth expert witness was called this week to answer questions on the tobacco trading case involving criminal charges against two Kahnawake men, Derek White and Hunter Montour. -
October 18, 2021Kanien’kehá:ka youth achieves lifelong dream
Kanien’kehá:ka Joëlle Perron-Thibodeau has dreamed of being a lawyer since she was 10 years old. Now, that dream is a reality. -
October 12, 2021Fighting for the right to participate in the UN
Indigenous leaders are pushing for the right of the First Peoples of the world to appropriate participation at the UN. -
September 16, 2021Looking deeper at land claims
Land claims and land grievances are no stranger to Onkwehón:we, and the convoluted history of Indigenous rights and lands has been prevalent since settlers arrived hundreds of years ago.
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September 10, 2021Investigation reveals damning contamination
LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL, THE EASTERN DOOR John Harding has never gotten used to the stink. Every time he neared the G&R Recycling site and the waters that flow by its operations on Kanehsatake land, his nose filled with “the smell of opening a septic tank and sticking your head inside.
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September 9, 2021Passports, Delta and outrage
Kahnawake is sitting in a difficult position. As the fourth wave and the red zone have been announced, the local Public Health team and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)
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August 24, 2021Grand chief visits Mexico
Last week, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer was a special guest and speaker at the 500 years of Indigenous Resistance – 1521 the Fall of Mexico – Tenochtitlan ceremony in Mexico City.
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August 5, 2021New chief comes clean
Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door Ryan Montour was on a path of self-destruction when a lifestyle of drinking, drugging and high-risk behaviour finally caught up to him that one fateful night 10 years ago. On March 2, 2011, Montour’s life changed forever after he left a local bar under the influence of drugs and alcohol and smashed head-on into a car driven by a man from Mercier. Today, he’s a newly-elected Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chief, but back then, he was an addict of drugs and alcohol. Montour was in the middle of heavy partying when he slipped behind the wheel of his white 2008 Dodge Charger, bolstered by a cocktail of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol. He had been contemplating whether or not he should drive down Route 207 to his home in the village area.
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July 19, 2021Potential destructive port halted
COURTESY LAURENTIA PROJECT The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) breathed a sigh of relief after Ottawa announced that it had blocked the Quebec City Laurentia port expansion project.
