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With the weather turning for the better, and the start date of the Suzanne River restoration project approaching, the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) has been organizing walks on the Suzanne to help community members get to know it - or pass on their own knowledge to KEPO.

Going into this week’s Kahnawake Harvest Summit at the Legion Hall in Kahnawake, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief David Diabo set out to jumpstart conversations.

Wednesday was the final day for Kahnawa’kehró:non to bring in firearms to the Kahnawake Peacekeepers as part of the “interim solution” concerning the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program (ASFCP) deadline, which passed at the end of March.

Community members will now have access to almost six million records related to the Federal Indian Day Schools system, after Library and Archives Canada (LAC) officially wrapped work on their Day Schools Project (DSP).

One hundred and fifty years ago, the Indian Act was introduced. Today, many are wondering how many more anniversaries will be marked before it’s gone.

Lloyd Phillips has been involved with the safety and security of Kahnawake going back almost four decades now, when he got his start as a paramedic and firefighter with the Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB).

Every year, as the snow melts and winter makes way for spring, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Kahnawake Peacekeepers make efforts to encourage safe usage of ATVs as their use grows in warmer days.

Last week’s Indigenous Nurses Day celebration in Kahnawake was truly generational – from 96-year-old Helen Skye, who became a nurse in 1951, to 29-year-old Rebecca Boyer, who graduated from her nurse practitioner program last summer, it was a day to recognize the efforts of Kahnawake’s nurses past and present.

Thoniarotahrhòn:ne tánon raià:tarahkwe ne tsi ionterihwaweienstáhkhwa ne Jeremy Thompson skátne Tkà:nios, tsi nón:we ohén:ton í:iente tehshakorihwasniè:se, tsi ó:nen waháttoke’ nahò:tenk ne rontia’táhrha tsi nihatiia’tò:ten.

Edward J. Aronhie:nens Cross has been recognized by the First Nations Education Council (FNEC), with one of their meeting rooms now featuring his name, as part of the FNEC’s anniversary celebrations.