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Marisela Amador The Eastern Door The community gathered this year for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate, share a meal, play games, and end the day in dance.

Courtesy Patrick Ragaz A hydraulic fluid spill from an excavator at a road maintenance construction site near Indian Way School led to an intervention by the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).

Simona Rosenfield The Eastern Door Kahnawake Environment Protection Office, in collaboration with Bird Protection Quebec (BPQ) visited 10 bird boxes located along the old Kahnawake Survival School campus to band the recently hatched tree swallows on Friday, June 10.

Courtesy Tekahnekake Stacey “As a kid, I always wanted to be fluent in my family’s language,” said Tekahnekake Stacey, an upcoming graduate of the Kanien’kéha Ratiwennahní:rats Adult Immersion Program run by the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:- na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center.

Courtesy Michael Montour In the mid-2000s, when the most interesting thing on most cell phones was the game “Snake,” there was a heavy metal show nearly every weekend around Kahnawake.

Courtesy Sharon Tiohswathe Rice The Onake Paddling Club (OPC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary by preparing a photo and video series on the organization’s historical development and accomplishments since the first paddler took to the water in 1972.

Courtesy Ieianerahstha Rourke Mary Ann Gray has been working to strengthen her fluency in Kanien’kéha since she was young.

Lauren Ashley Jiles Third time’s a charm, but that’s not why Kahnawa’kehró:non Lauren Ashley Jiles - a.k.a. Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière - felt calm as she took to burlesque’s biggest stage to face its fiercest competition.

Courtesy Janelle Niles Got Land? That’s the name of a touring Indigenous comedy show that’s coming to Kahnawake for the first time next Saturday, June 11.

Courtesy KOR “I don’t speak Mohawk.” Kahsennenhawi Kirby remembers her embarrassment whenever an elder would ask her a question in Kanien’kéha, and these words would fall from her mouth.