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Kanehsata’kehró:non Mary Hannaburg has been at many tables over the years where the Indian Act was debated, but she believes recently passed amendments to Bill S-2, which would axe the second-generation cut-off rule, are more promising than ever before.

Meagan Teiotsistokwahte McComber has spent years navigating chronic foot pain due to various injuries. That journey toward healing led her to barefoot footwear designed to let the foot move naturally and eventually to the idea of bringing them directly to her community.

Just a few months after the official launch of the Elevating Sportsmanship and Empowering Respect campaign, a collaboration between the Sports and Recreation Unit (SRU) of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake and Kahnawake Shakotiia’takéhnhas Community Services (KSCS), its effects can already be felt in community sports, including minor hockey.

The Kahnawake Minor Hockey Association (KMHA)’s U11A Mohawks had a nice showing in their first tournament of the season, the Cumberland Dukes House League Showdown - but they also had a lot of fun, which is even more important to their coaching staff.

Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.

Although the school year is still in the early goings for Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) students, it is never too soon to start thinking about the future.

Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) administrators were among the educators who travelled to Winnipeg last week to connect over the challenges and opportunities in Indigenous education today.

Kahnawake’s Alex Rice holds a mirror to her face, her eyes brimming with tears as she looks at her reflection. She is Marianne, one of a group of Cree siblings in Tasha Hubbard’s newest film Meadowlarks, who meet for the first time after being separated during the Sixties Scoop.

The mayor of Chateauguay said he’s invested in continuing to build a relationship between his community and Kahnawake that’s focused on respect and open communication, following a meeting held last week between him and Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chiefs.

“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.