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Courtesy Gail Chamberlain, Konwenni Jacobs Another wave, so to speak, of Onkwehón:we from the north arrived this week at Standing Rock, North Dakota, where protectors of the land have been pepper-sprayed, attacked by security and dogs, and continue to build up support from across Turtle Island against a $3.8 billion pipeline.

Tyler Diabo sits next to his son Josh Diabo, who accepted this year’s Jesse Deer Memorial Scholarship on Monday.

Hannah Deer's lead horse, George, was crowned National Champion Percheron Ladies Cart at the Indiana Fair this week. (Courtesy Stacie Lynch)

Land claims. Use those two words, and a discussion will ensue involving history, theft, dishonesty, entitlement, disgrace and about 28 other issues.

The 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics included hundreds of Indigenous dancers as part of the game’s closing ceremony. (Courtesy COJO Montreal 1976)

By: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door The “inquisition” on traditional dances, songs and rituals of our ancestors mainly touched the western province up until the mid 1950s since most eastern First Nations were than more likely abiding to the Indian Act and the Christian values, being in touch with Europeans for a longer period.

The Caughnawaga Indians felt the same heat their cross-town rivals the Kahnawake Mohawks felt Sunday and fell to the Capital Region Axemen by a sizeable margin.

Tania Larivière, right, was one of the Indigenous youth from Quebec who attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues this week in New York City.

Members of the Mohawk Nation met the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in Montreal. (Courtesy Kenneth Deer) By: Darian Jacobs, The Eastern Door A group of representatives of the Mohawk Nation and Secretary General for the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon met February 13 in Montreal for a welcoming and conversation on Indigenous issues.

A collection of Skawennati Fragnito’s ‘machinimagraphs’ hangs at Ellephant, a new exhibition space in Montreal. (Courtesy Christine Redfern) Kanien’kehá:ka artist Skawennati Fragnito’s work is front and centre at a new solo exhibition space in the heart of Montreal’s Quartiers des Spectacles.