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The Kahnawake Peacekeepers run a 24-hour operation, so it might seem strange to find the lights off at the station.

A fractious term of Council has hit a new low, with the doors of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK)

Two new agreements have just come into effect that will allow Kahnawa’kehró:non to resolve legal matters locally rather than at the courthouse in Longueuil, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) agreed that a decision recognizing the existence of systemic discrimination raises vital concerns.

After The Eastern Door reported last month that residents of Kwe 55 were cut off from social assistance and medical transport services, local organizations are working to address the shortfalls.

Alexis Shackleton has been named Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC)’s first-ever ombudsperson, a role created specifically to respond to complaints, conduct investigations, and make recommendations for recourse.

The efforts of an anonymous group of Kanehsata’kehró:non has brought a deluge of attention to Kanesatake with the urgent message that the community has fallen into a “state of lawlessness and danger.” An open letter circulating amongst journalists and politicians names scourges such as toxic dump sites, dangerous criminal activity, and land “being stolen piece by piece by land developers and assimilated Mohawks treating Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands as if they were all for the taking.” In part by providing a trove of related documents, the group sparked a La Presse investigation into G&R Recycling that brought the issue roaring back into mainstream discourse.

Kanehsata’kehró:non with homes on the water are dealing with flooding and anxiety this week as water levels have risen, but the devastation of the 2017 and 2019 floods is expected to be avoided.

When the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) filed their civil lawsuit in March 2022 demanding McGill University cease work on an $850-million redevelopment project at the former Royal Victoria Hospital, it seemed as though the odds were stacked against them.

In 2016, Kenneth Deer travelled to the Vatican alongside a delegation of other Indigenous leaders to demand that pope Francis revoke three papal bulls – declarations made by popes – that provided the legal basis and religious authority for centuries of ongoing colonial genocide.