Publishing since 1992 from Kahnawake Kanien'kehá:ka Territory

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  • September 26, 2023

    Giving the gift of life

    Thawennontie Thomas was with his siblings when his mother, Sylvia Thomas, told them she needed a new kidney. “We just sat there in silence,” Thawennontie remembered.

  • August 23, 2023

    Continued complaints at Anna Laberge

    When Heather Snow arrived for an appointment at the Mental Health Clinic at Anna Laberge Hospital last week, she was surprised to find the door she usually uses was locked.

  • August 22, 2023

    Kahnawake screens doc on the pines

    The film opens with a close-up image of Pine needles so lush-green you can almost smell them, as a woman speaks Kanien’kéka, returning an absorbed audience to the events that set into motion the 78-day standoff known today as the Siege of Kanehsatake.

  • August 14, 2023

    Women speak out against tree cutting

    When members of Ionkwatehontsénhne decided to speak with The Eastern Door, they wanted to meet in the Pines, where a white sign reads “Onen’to:kon preservation area.

  • August 1, 2023

    Jayla wins in javelin at Indigenous Games

    Before Jayla White got on the bus to Halifax to compete in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), her mother jokingly told her to bring home some medals.

  • June 29, 2023

    Traumatic birth experiences at Anna Laberge

    Kaniehtisakhe Albany was 35 weeks and five days into her pregnancy when one of her unborn twins decided she was ready to make her entrance into the world.

  • June 27, 2023

    Q&A: Anonymous Kanehsata'kehró:non speak out

    With an influential open letter and a trove of documents, an anonymous group of Kanehsata’kehró:non has brought countrywide attention to grave issues of land, safety, and the environment in the community.

  • June 21, 2023

    Billings kicks off football program

    Today Luc Pelland is a math and science teacher at Howard S. Billings High School in Chateauguay, but it was not always evident he was going to dedicate his life to education.

  • June 9, 2023

    Grocery giants pull Vegibec pending investigation

    In light of contamination concerns relating to G&R Recycling, The Eastern Door has learned that grocery chains Provigo, Metro, and Sobeys have suspended orders from Les Jardins Vegibec.

  • June 7, 2023

    Obomsawin looks back – and ahead

    Tracey Deer distinctly remembers the first time she saw Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: she was studying film at Dartmouth College, and the documentary was being screened in one of her classes.