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Kakaionstha Deer, a former Kateri School principal, also taught the first Kanien'kéha immersion nursery classes. (Jessica Deer The Eastern Door)

Search for directions to Kashechewan on a GPS, and the response returns, “can’t find a way there.” It’s a fitting response from a machine that looks for paved roads and common routes to get places, but also is an apt primer to get your mindset ready for the reality of what the Cree community on the Albany River off James Bay in Ontario faces every day.

Women in International Security Canada executive director Dr. Cassandra Steer (left) hosted intergenerational panel of Inuk Nina Segalowitz, Kanienkehá:ka Ellen Gabriel, and Cree Maïtée Labrecque-Saganash.

Price Paid: the Fight for First Nations Survival is the second book by Bev Sellars, a scholar of both history and law for First Nations.

Co-directors Elaine Kicknosway, Colleen Cardinal and Duane Morrisseau Beck of the National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network. (Courtesy Colleen Cardinal)

A brand new tanker truck was delivered to the Kahnawake Fire Brigade on Tuesday afternoon. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door)

Chanie Wenjack's sad final journey along the tracks in tragic animated beauty is a testament to Gord Downie's talent and Canada's shame at the same paradoxic time.

Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack. It is a name the entire country should now know, though few knew the boy during his 12 short years.

One colour was spread throughout Kahnawake Friday in a glowing reminder of the legacy of residential schools and their impacts on those forced, coerced or convinced to attend the institutions.

Remnants of the St. Joseph Residential School in Spanish, Ontario. (Steve Bonspiel, The Eastern Door) The Canadian government’s residential school policy left lasting and real scars on thousands of Onkwehón:we people and their family for decades, due to abusive school practice over the 120-plus years the policy was in place.