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It’s been nearly two years since Taietsarón:sere Tai Leclaire’s short film Headdress hit screens, but it’s still reaching new audiences - this time thanks to image+nation, a Montreal-based queer film festival.

Parents and guardians received a stern letter last week from the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) reminding them there’s zero tolerance for aggressive behaviour at their schools.

On December 12, the mandate of the special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian Residential Schools will come to an end.

After printing over 2,000 issues over the course of 42 years, Turtle Island’s longest-running Kanien’kehá:ka newspaper is calling it quits.  Indian Time, based in Akwesasne, ran its second-to-last print issue on November 14 and will run its last on December 19.  Editor Marjorie Skidders said they can no longer afford to print amid a stark plummet in ad revenue.  “It really is sad,” she told The Eastern Door.

Like most artists, Sage Harrington takes inspiration from her surroundings - in her case, the lands and waters of Kanesatake.

Social media isn’t always a positive place, but this week it helped a treasured piece of community history find its way back home to Six Nations, thanks to the work of a local business, two thrifters, and a former non-profit president.

They will no longer be running on Indian Time. Sadly, Akwesasne will be, by the end of this year, devoid of an independent media free of overt political influence, and whether you live there or not, you should be concerned.

Although we hate to reuse certain phrases, “one of the worst-kept secrets” has popped up too often this year with the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).

As of this month, community members are now able to read monthly reports produced by each of the Council chiefs.  It’s all part of an effort to promote transparency and accountability from the Council table, according to the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake’s (MCK)

Mohawk Council of Kanesatake grand chief Victor Bonspille did a good job in a so-called press release this week, signed by only him (there’s a pattern here), by making himself look vindictive, taking it to a personal level.