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Remains of Kanien’kehá:ka that date back prior to colonization found during construction at St. Joseph’s Oratory will be reburied at another location on the oratory grounds, The Eastern Door has learned, following an agreement struck between the oratory and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).  The remains of the three individuals were found in the spring last year as the oratory was removing an old asphalt road leading up its slopes, said Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle, the archeologist for the MCK who was there as a monitor when the remains were uncovered.  “Most of these ancestral remains that were found are over 1,000 years old,” she said.

About a year after a media campaign that turned the country’s attention to the government’s failures to act on G&R Recycling and a climate of lawlessness and fear in the community, a group of anonymous Kanehsata’kehró:non have released a new open letter to highlight the continued urgency of their cause.

Election season is upon us. No, not THAT election! The one with your favourite Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chiefs. So let the fun begin!

An announcement last week from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that the ribbon skirt would now be part of official ceremonial uniform incited strong reactions from community members, with mixed views on whether the force should have the right to include traditional items in their uniform.

After 36 years with the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC), director of education Robin Delaronde announced her impending retirement this week, which will come at the end of the 2024-25 school year.

Within the past year, Kahnawa’kehró:non artist MC Snow has exhibited his sculptures on home turf and all the way in Paris, too.

When Karihwakátste Deer got home around lunchtime recently, she noticed a smell of burning plastic so disturbing she allowed herself only shallow breaths, worried about the dangers of breathing in the air.

After two years in the works, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

In the earliest days of a local radio station here in Kanesatake, a teenage Kristin Cree, daughter of co-founder John Cree, hosted a show out of a mobile trailer that served as the station’s office and studio.

Growing up, Ahkhwesahsró:non Chrystalynn Jock did not always attend the Akwesasne Powwow, but every year she saw her home community buzzing with a flurry of visitors, crowding the streets and flowing into local shops.