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The past few months have been jam-packed for Kanehsata’kehró:non Julia Kanathiiostha Lazore – while juggling getting married in May and graduating from the Ratiwennenhá:wi Adult Immersion program in June, she’s spent every morsel of free time preparing for the Miss Indigenous Canada pageant, which took place in Six Nations of the Grand River last weekend.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is one of three core members of a research project looking to re-examine the understanding of the history of what the project is calling Ancestral Iroquoia - namely the relationships between the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples.

Families of children who rely on Jordan’s Principle funding to pay for private schools may have just a few short weeks to figure out how to pay or find new school options, after Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) said it’ll be unable to cover tuition fees through the program.n

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chiefs Melanie Morrison and Tonya Perron represented Kahnawake in Geneva last week, pushing forward the urgent need for meaningful implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

A new fund has been launched to support survivors of residential school and their descendants in community initiatives that promote acknowledging and healing from their ongoing trauma.

An attempt to use the courts to thwart Saturday’s ratification vote for four community laws failed, but with only six percent of eligible voters casting a ballot, the vote was nevertheless nullified.

For Shirley Bonspille, one of the organizers of the annual Kanehsatà:ke Traditional Powwow, it’s impossible to choose a favourite part of the event, but it’s clear the drum is one of the most memorable features for her.

When the first International First Peoples Festival (IFPF) happened in 1991, with the Siege of Kanehsatake still fresh in the minds of many, there was initial resistance to having an event like this take place in Tiohtià:ke.

During the Siege of Kanehsatake in 1990, Ellen Katsi’tsakwas Gabriel would speak at night with the men on the front lines after wrapping up the day’s negotiations. One of the men, Richard Two-Axe - “Boltpin” - had a saying. You can break one arrow very easily, but if you take a bunch of arrows, you cannot break them.

Cannabis. Marijuana. Weed.

It has many names and, as we have learned, it has many detractors and many supporters in Kahnawake.