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  • March 1, 2024

    Dump trucks confronted in Kanesatake

    Frustrated by a constant stream of dump trucks coming into the community to unload landfill, a handful of Kanehsata’kehró:non sprung into action on Wednesday afternoon to stop vehicles from entering Ahsennénhson near the baseball diamond.

  • January 25, 2024

    Midwinter ceremonies continue to grow

    Teiotién:taron River Flow McComber didn’t always attend Longhouse, but when he started going with his school’s singing group, he immediately felt a sense of community.

  • January 19, 2024

    Canada sought to weaken declaration

    Newly unsealed documents reveal Canadian officials were actively colluding with the Australian government behind closed doors in the early 2000s to write a weakened version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

  • January 17, 2024

    Alfred’s book named one of year’s best

    Gerald Taiaiake Alfred said it’s a pleasant surprise to see his most recent book make the top-100 best books of 2023 list by the Hill Times.

  • January 11, 2024

    The year of little progress

    When we first started writing about the year that was, 2023, we read over the recaps (see pages 6, 9, 21) of the top stories of the year.

  • December 11, 2023

    Feds appeal to fight self-determination

    The White and Montour tobacco case is a major victory for Kahnawa’kehró:non and a big set-back for the federal government’s unilateral self-government policy.

  • December 8, 2023

    Sacred masks return home

    Jessica Loft Cross had long known she’d one day become responsible for the care of a collection of Hatowi masks, just not when.

  • October 26, 2023

    White prepares for historic verdict

    Derek White hasn’t been allowed to leave Canada since March 2016, when he and 60 others were arrested as part of Project Mygale on suspicion of evading taxes in cross-border tobacco trading.

  • October 5, 2023

    Alex Rice represents Kahnawake in new film

    Alex Rice fondly remembers her first impression of Quebec director Denys Arcand. She was living in Los Angeles at the time as a starving artist waiting tables to make ends meet.

  • September 28, 2023

    Birks ad raises questions

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and her wife Tami Jo Rice were paid to promote Birks, a jewellery company whose diamonds partly originate from mines said to have harmful effects on Indigenous communities in Canada.