Search Results

As Kahnawa’kehró:non Waneek Horn-Miller looked out at the thousands of Onkwehón:we who had flocked to Ottawa for the WAVES 2025 Global Indigenous Language Summit last week, she was struck just how many people had united behind the common goal of celebrating Indigenous languages.

After years of planning and collecting community feedback, the North Creek Restoration project is finally set to begin work in earnest in the coming weeks and going until November 2025.

Representatives of 2021’s electoral officer, Annie Neashish, visited the community on Sunday to discuss the possibility of taking over administration of the cancelled election, according to multiple sources, following a letter from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) that seemed to endorse the initiative.

Kanesatake was represented at both the Canada Games and Lacrosse Canada’s Minor Box Nationals last week, proving the community’s commitment to lacrosse is paying off with opportunities to compete against the best in the country.

The Kahnawake Warhawks baseball teams are capping off their regular season with the Lac St. Louis regionals.

As the community dealt with stifling temperatures earlier this week, a controlled burn raged for more than 24 hours on the lot of the Thompson factory, frustrating Kahnawa’kehró:non and posing a danger to Kahnawake and surrounding communities.

While a contingent of community members advanced their efforts this week to attempt to contract a new electoral officer and resume elections, a quorum of incumbent Council chiefs met a deadline set by Indigenous Services Canada to formally assert an extension of their term with a band council resolution (BCR).

The Canada Games are in full swing in St. John’s. Newfoundland, with women’s box lacrosse being one of the marquee sports of the first week of the games.

The North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) Council announced via press release on August 8 that Calgary will no longer be host city of the 2027 games.

Kanesatake’s general election was cancelled on the eve of election day, with the electoral officer blaming a flawed electoral code for a mountain of irregularities, escalating the community’s governance problems into a full-blown crisis and leaving Kanehsata’kehró:non scrambling to make sense of their new political reality.