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  • January 25, 2024

    New dictionary connects past and present

    Around 10 years ago, a linguist with experience in Haudenosaunee languages, Karin Michelson, was invited by three Oneida women to assist them in going through the archives of one of the world’s best-known museums.

  • December 11, 2023

    Feds appeal to fight self-determination

    The White and Montour tobacco case is a major victory for Kahnawa’kehró:non and a big set-back for the federal government’s unilateral self-government policy.

  • December 7, 2023

    Support for violence survivors

    Accessing help as a survivor of domestic abuse can be difficult – both emotionally and bureaucratically – as individuals are left to figure out which organizations provide the types of resources they need during vulnerable times.

  • November 8, 2023

    Inflation benefit a game-changer for families

    Although inflation appears to be cooling, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) Social Assistance Department has announced it will continue to provide an inflation benefit to social assistance clients until the end of the fiscal year in March 2024.

  • November 7, 2023

    First Nations police demand fair funding

    The Kahnawake Peacekeepers run a 24-hour operation, so it might seem strange to find the lights off at the station.

  • October 11, 2023

    Prejudice blamed for pre-season chaos

    A resolution has been found after multiple teams in the Lac St. Louis (LSL) 30 Ouest (LHTO) hockey league refused to play against the U18 Kahnawake Mohawks this year, a stance that struck many community members as racist.

  • October 5, 2023

    Birks promo wasn’t well thought out

    First, the positive: Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and her partner Tami Jo Rice are proud of who they are as a gay couple in Kahnawake.

  • October 4, 2023

    Taking back jurisdiction over justice

    Two new agreements have just come into effect that will allow Kahnawa’kehró:non to resolve legal matters locally rather than at the courthouse in Longueuil, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

  • October 4, 2023

    Environment director under fire

    The director of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) environment department has been accused of cutting trees in the Onen’tó:kon preservation area established by a group of women committed to protecting the Pines.

  • September 28, 2023

    Birks ad raises questions

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and her wife Tami Jo Rice were paid to promote Birks, a jewellery company whose diamonds partly originate from mines said to have harmful effects on Indigenous communities in Canada.