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November 15, 2022Devastated by housing scandal
“This isn’t the result I expected. This is devastating.” Tammy Whitebean, who is one of at least 20 victims of the 2018 housing scandal that has left Kahnawake reeling, has been reacting to last week’s announcement that no criminal charges would be laid in the fraud investigation. -
November 7, 2022Mohawk Mothers blazing a trail
To challenge a giant head on is one thing. To do it representing yourselves in a foreign system, with no lawyers and nothing but a hunch, powerful protective instincts and bravery, is quite another. -
October 28, 2022Mothers force Royal Vic dig halt
Courtesy Emma Bainbridge As the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) close out two days in Quebec’s Superior Court this week, a judge has ruled that the archaeological firm Arkéos must stop digging at the Royal Victoria Hospital site so investigations into the possibility of unmarked graves can take place.
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October 11, 2022Montreal demands more Truth and Reconciliation
Eve Cable Mohawk Council grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer punched her fist in the air as she stood in front of McGill University’s Roddick Gates in downtown Montreal on September 30.
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October 10, 2022Survivors speak on Orange Shirt Day
Marcus Bankuti When Ruth Loft came home from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in the early 1960s, she felt like she didn’t fit in, like her own community didn’t understand her.
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October 6, 2022Remembering Orange Shirt Day
Marcus Bankuti In 2013, medical transport worker Helen Jarvis Montour asked her boss if she could wear an orange shirt to work on September 30.
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August 26, 2022A legal victory against Bill 96
File photo An email with the subject line, “We won!!!” reached Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Tonya Perron’s inbox while she was in a meeting two weeks ago.
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August 12, 2022Feather Gardens production lands laughs
Courtesy Hudson Village Theatre It’s no easy feat to get a room full of settlers to laugh at themselves, but the Hudson Village Theatre’s production of Feather Gardens accomplished that and much more. Feather Gardens, written by Jimmy Blais, stars a patch of land in the town of Hudson, a non-Indigenous settlement located across the Ottawa River from Kanesatake.
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August 11, 2022A private apology from the pope
Courtesy Jonel Beauvais On her grandmother’s 92nd birthday, Jonel Beauvais addressed pope Francis directly about the impacts of residential schools.
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August 8, 2022Gabriel directs award-winning film on the Pines
Courtesy Oreana Franchy In just 20 minutes, Ellen Gabriel has turned 32 years of reporting on its head, with the debut of her documentary film, “Kanatenhs - When The Pine Needles Fall,” which recently won Best Short Documentary from the LA Independent Women Film Awards eighth edition.
