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McGill University’s 24th annual powwow last Friday brought together dancers, community members, and local students to celebrate Indigenous culture during a cool, sunny fall day at the school’s Macdonald Campus.

NASCAR driver Derek White went into last weekend’s Craftsman Truck Series race, the EJP 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, with a new sponsor, JL Wholesale, on his #69 MBM Motorsports truck, looking to get a good result in his first start in New Hampshire since 2015.

This year’s winner of the Indian Summer Championship at Napierville Dragway is Kahnawake’s Darren Decaire, with his 1987 Oldsmobile Cutlass - equipped with a more modern General Motors 6.2L LS3 engine - posting a time of 10.98 seconds on the quarter mile in the finals against one of his oldest friends, Charlie “Chops” Rice.

It’s been 18 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), a pivotal document that recognizes Indigenous Peoples as distinct and self-determining, affirming the collective and individual rights of Onkwehón:we everywhere.

With a radiant smile and dressed in regalia blending academic tradition with Indigenous identity, Konwatsitsawi Meloche accepted her honourary doctorate from Maskwacis Cultural College. 

For the next four years, community members might hear a familiar voice ringing through the speakers in advertisements at sports games, concerts, on TV, and on the radio, after local host Jeci Tekentenhawítha Goodleaf was selected to record voiceover material for a new promotional coin celebrating Anishinaabe artist Daphne Odjig.

Monday was supposed to be the third annual visit of the Canadian Football League (CFL)’s Montreal Alouettes to Kahnawake for a flag football and meet and greet event with players.

Even if it might have been a tough weekend results-wise for the two summer Kahnawake Warhawks baseball teams still in action, both the U15B girls and U18 mixed team gave it their all.

The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (SRMT) has reached an agreement with a New York governor that could spell the end of a decades-long land grievance – but many who have been following the case say that the deal symbolizes a loss of sovereignty in Akwesasne and beyond.

This week was International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day (September 9) and World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), with Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) offering an informational session outside its main building on Tuesday to underline those two days.