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When Kiona Akohseràke Deer took a chance and applied to an initiative that would send First Nations youth to visit sites honouring Indigenous contributions to the First and Second World Wars, she was thinking of her own family members and the long list of veterans from Kahnawake who have been a part of the Canadian military over the years.

Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.

After months of consultations at Senate standing committees, senators have voted 10-1 to pass amendments that would end second-generation cut-off within the Indian Act.

Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) administrators were among the educators who travelled to Winnipeg last week to connect over the challenges and opportunities in Indigenous education today.

Kahnawake’s Alex Rice holds a mirror to her face, her eyes brimming with tears as she looks at her reflection. She is Marianne, one of a group of Cree siblings in Tasha Hubbard’s newest film Meadowlarks, who meet for the first time after being separated during the Sixties Scoop.

Tupqan is the latest play to come from Indigenous multidisciplinary art company Ondinnok, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

After offseason concerns that a new collective bargaining agreement would not be reached in time for the season to start on time, the National Lacrosse League (NLL) is indeed back tonight (Friday) after a brief preseason calendar.

“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.

Quebec Native Women (QNW), the organization that seeks to represent the interests of Indigenous women throughout the province, responded via press release to the report by the Quebec ombudsperson that the province is not doing enough to implement the Viens Commission’s 142 calls to action.

Students at the First Nations Regional Adult Education Centre (FNRAEC) in Kahnawake are taking their carpentry training beyond the classroom through a community-centred construction project.