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One of the biggest annual events for local youth has once again crossed the finish line, and even with summer break on the horizon, some minds are already turning to next year’s edition of the First Nations Education Council (FNEC) Inter-School Games.

The 186 athletes, coaches, and volunteers that made up Team Kahnawake at this year’s First Nations Education Council (FNEC) Inter-School Games have a lot of hardware to go with their hard work, winning 55 medals.

As community outrage mounted over the return of a man convicted in Michigan of a sex offense against a child, a trio of Council chiefs, including grand chief Cody Diabo, delivered an eviction notice Tuesday, leading the man to vacate Kahnawake for a second time.

Reaching local men and boys was a big focus of a free lunch held last week by Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS), where the family violence action group shared how the message of the Moose Hide Campaign fits in when discussing gender-based violence.

The grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, Norman A. Wapachee, was ecstatic on election night as his predecessor, Mandy Gull-Masty, inched past the competition and won a seat in Parliament representing the riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou.

Last Thursday morning, a car zoomed past Jennifer Doherty, who was driving through Kahnawake territory toward the Mercier Bridge in rush-hour traffic – she estimates the vehicle was going 160 KM/H or more, with four feet of metal hanging off it flapping in the wind.

The world of Native fashion is exploding lately, with more and more Onkwehón:we designers sharing their works on catwalks around the world. The latest venue for Indigenous fashionistas was in New Mexico, with some of Kahnawake’s own talent heading to Santa Fe for the first edition of Santa Fe’s Native Fashion Week.

We’ll see, as Canada elected another Liberal government, albeit a minority, and there was plenty to unpack from it.

Two decades after it began operating - and almost 11 years after its founder and now namesake passed on - the Orville Standup Memorial Kateri Food Basket is still going strong, helping community members in need of food, clothes, and household items.

After several attempts, the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) has finally onboarded a new lands and estates manager following the resignation of Amanda Simon, who long held the role, nearly a year ago.