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Before Jayla White got on the bus to Halifax to compete in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), her mother jokingly told her to bring home some medals.

It had been drizzling for almost all of last Saturday, the day of Kahanwake’s first-ever Pride parade. As the event’s start time grew nearer, nobody knew if the weather would dampen the day, or if there’d be a big turnout, or if there’d be anyone in the streets to support it.

Richard Nolan keeps a close eye on the ash trees in his yard. One of them is dead, another is dying: the top of the tree is barren, many of its leaves are browning.

Though many graduates from McGill University hang their diplomas on their walls with pride, recent graduate Josh Swain, who is Red River Metis from Kinosota, is excited to display something other than a special piece of paper to mark his achievements: a beautiful, handcrafted graduation stole designed by Kahnawa’kehró:non Tammy Beauvais.

On a week that thrust Kanesatake’s troubles into countrywide headlines, Wanda Gabriel guided a cohort of McGill University students through the aspects of the community that are a source of pride.

Planting Day saw many Kahnawa’kehró:non tend to their yards over the past weekend. And some gathered at the community garden to plant heaps of seeds.

The Quebec government will be contributing $11 million to the new multi-purpose building project, which is set to house the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR), Turtle Island Theatre, and Kahnawake Tourism.

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.

Angie-Pepper O’Bomsawin’s latest project, a KASKO productions docuseries called Little Big Community, showcases First Nations communities across Turtle Island, and the first episode is all about Kahnawa’kehró:non.

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.