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The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has announced that a team of architecture firms has been chosen for Kahnawake’s new multi-purpose cultural building.

At a certain point in the journey to get to Ōtaki, New Zealand, for the Māoriland Film Festival, the 22-strong group travelling to participate began to wonder if they would ever get there.

In 1957, Harvey Gabriel heard scripture read out loud in Kanien’kéha for the first time. When he got home, he asked his mother why Kanien’kehá:ka didn’t have a Bible in their own language.

Local participation in a massive study on the health of First Nations youth could have a lasting benefit for Kanehsata’kehró:non, a fact celebrated by families and researchers on Saturday at Rotiwennakéhte elementary school.

At the kitchen table of the Tsi Ronterihwanónhnha ne Kanien’kéha Language and Culture Center, fluent speakers snacked on banana cake and sipped green tea as they reached into their memories looking for “moonlight”: wattsíserare.

Both Stephen McComber and Ka'nahsohon Kevin Deer have been going to the Longhouse since they were young children. Though they’ve been celebrating the traditions of Midwinter Ceremonies for years, every stirring of the ashes has taught them new lessons and given them new memories to share.

The mission of Reviving Kanehsatà:ke Radio (RKR) 101.7 FM has a lot to do with the Kanien’kéha language, with preserving and broadcasting slivers of Kanesatake history, with strengthening culture in the community.

When the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve in Kahnawake, the sound of fireworks is muddled with the noise of gunshots, as groups shoot firearms in the air to celebrate.

You wouldn’t know it was below freezing last Friday if you were standing inside the newly-built Mohawk-Cree teepees, where the warmth of the crackling fire and the smell of freshly cooked moose and goose meat filled the air.