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The Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) will have a shiny new booth at the world’s largest gaming conference in Barcelona this coming January, thanks to an injection of $22,000 from the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

Good food, good tunes, and good times were shared at the Golden Age Club’s country jamboree, celebrating both the Club’s 40th anniversary and the memory of Buddy Goodleaf.

Tuition for undergraduate and graduate programs will be free to all Onkwehón:we students from communities in Quebec, starting this fall.

Organizers of this year’s Purple Ribbon Walk said the event was once again a great success, with community members showing up on Saturday night to honour loved ones who have faced cancer.

"Out with the old, in with the new” is the spirit of many groundbreaking ceremonies, but the aging steel home of the Onake Paddling Club evokes too many fond memories for sheer celebration.

Community members are experiencing severe delays in receiving Jordan’s Principle funding after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) suddenly stopped processing Onkwata’karitáhtshera’s requests, leaving the community in the dark about the cause of delays and timeline for resuming approvals.

Kahnawake is getting ready to build a covered outdoor rink, envisioned as a world-class facility that will significantly boost the community’s sporting capacity, the community learned this week.

Veterans’ issues were on the margins of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual general assembly at the Palais de Congrès in Montreal last week.

Back in May, members of Kanesatake’s Longhouse listened as Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille and MCK chief Valerie Bonspille shared with them information about a group of paddlers that had scheduled a six-day trip, including a stop in Kanesatake.