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Kahtehrón:ni Iris Stacey puts her degree to work as the Kahnawake Education Center's Kanien’kehá:ka curriculum developer after being part of the Indigenous Languages Revitalization program.

Mohawk Council political attache Joe Delaronde headed last week's Community Decision-Making Meeting that discussed taking membership privileges away from those not conforming with the Kahnawake Membership Law.

Remnants of the St. Joseph Residential School in Spanish, Ontario. (Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door) The Canadian government’s residential school policy left lasting and real scars on thousands of Onkwehón:we people and their family for decades, due to abusive school practice over the 120-plus years the policy was in place.

This morning the community will gather to honour residential school survivors and remember the ones who never came home. Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started a few years ago in BC and based on a story from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack-Webstad, is as important a day as any other.

(Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door) “I was angry, real angry,” said Kevin Myiow, after the trailer he had been living in since February 2015 caught fire and was completely destroyed.

The Kahnawake Peacekeepers carried out a search warrant at a residence in the area of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake on September 9.

Brad Firth, known as Caribou Legs, joined dozens of Kahnawa’kehró:non in a peaceful march on Tuesday evening to show solidarity to those in Standing Rock.

About a dozen community members participated in a small protest Friday morning to voice their concerns about the traffic, noise and trucks on Route 207.

Kanien’kehá:ka women in Kahnawake wore shawls over their head and shoulders during the early 20th century. (Courtesy McCord Museum)

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake lawyer Francis Walsh along with council grand chiefs Serge “Otsi” Simon and Joe Norton (pictured) remind the public that pipelines without their consent and accommodation will not flow through the region.