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Spurred by a recent wave of external media coverage of dumping in the community, a group of Oka residents and affiliated groups have vowed to support Kanehsata’kehró:non with a blockade to stop dump trucks if necessary.

Kimberly Murray, the federal point person for missing children and unmarked graves, will continue her work for a further six months, having had her mandate extended to continue assisting survivors and communities in locating burial sites associated with residential schools.

Remains of Kanien’kehá:ka that date back prior to colonization found during construction at St. Joseph’s Oratory will be reburied at another location on the oratory grounds, The Eastern Door has learned, following an agreement struck between the oratory and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).  The remains of the three individuals were found in the spring last year as the oratory was removing an old asphalt road leading up its slopes, said Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle, the archeologist for the MCK who was there as a monitor when the remains were uncovered.  “Most of these ancestral remains that were found are over 1,000 years old,” she said.

About a year after a media campaign that turned the country’s attention to the government’s failures to act on G&R Recycling and a climate of lawlessness and fear in the community, a group of anonymous Kanehsata’kehró:non have released a new open letter to highlight the continued urgency of their cause.

Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) has lifted a condition that all Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs must agree on a plan to hire W8banaki to coordinate preliminary work for the cleanup of the toxic G&R Recycling site, according to two MCK chiefs.

Archaeology is a field that often pushes Indigenous people out, increasing barriers to justice and finding out the real history of colonization.

When we think of what producing our own food means, with the food sovereignty movement and everything that kind of economic power entails, we immediately think of the things that sustained us for so many years.

The start of asphalt season at the JFK quarry is delayed this year, with the quarry not permitted to open its plant until regulations are created pertaining to asphalt under the Kahnawake Sanitary Conditions law, according to Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

An attempt by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) to topple Ontario’s multibillion-dollar online gaming scheme was rejected by an Ontario Superior Court judge Monday.

After construction of the Kahnawake Cultural Arts Center (KCAC) resulted in the loss of more trees than had been anticipated – nearly 600 in total – Kahnawake Survival School (KSS)