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Marjolaine Etienne was elected president for a second four-year term at the Quebec Native Women (QNW)’s annual general assembly in Quebec City on December 1.

It was a big day for Kahnawa’kehró:non at the First Nations Executive Education (FNEE) graduation this month, with six community members celebrating the completion of courses that will further their leadership skills.

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.

In a ceremony held on the lower field of McGill University last Sunday morning, around 200 people gathered as a great white pine sapling, brought by Kanehsata’kehró:non Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel from the Pines in Kanehsatake, was planted into the ground.

Kahnawa’kehró:non hockey player Bocephus Dailleboust has won the Tom Longboat Regional Award for Quebec. He is currently in his first year playing in the United States Premier Hockey League (USPHL)’s Elite division for the Islanders Hockey Club in Boston, Massachusetts.

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.

This year’s Remembrance Day parade was the largest in almost two decades, with hundreds of veterans from multiple branches of the Canadian and American armed forces joined by the community in remembrance and celebration of the sacrifices of veterans, living or passed.

It might have been 50 years or more since a home birth in Kanesatake, a practice that used to be commonplace in the community, but the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC)

The annual Akwesasne Fashion Show is set to be an event to remember this year, with tickets selling out within just three days.

Kahnawa’kehró:non Poppy Diabo is gearing up for nationals with her Onondaga Community College women’s soccer team after they defeated their opponent 4-0 last weekend.  Just before halftime, the freshman at the college in Syracuse, New York, assisted in her teammate Justine Borte scoring the team’s second goal.  “The day of our last game felt unreal,” said Diabo, who studies early childhood education at the college.