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An odd 200 kilometres separates Kanehsatake from the town of Arnprior, Ontario. Since the Spirit Children’s Walk began on September 9, this has been the distance travelled by Kanehsatake resident and father, Al Harrington, his son Nation, and Ottawa resident Jessica-Lee Dinovitzer.

For the last 75 days, land defenders from the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation at Kahnawake have been occupying an area at the end of the Old Chateauguay Road (OCR)

Land claims and land grievances are no stranger to Onkwehón:we, and the convoluted history of Indigenous rights and lands has been prevalent since settlers arrived hundreds of years ago.

LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL, THE EASTERN DOOR John Harding has never gotten used to the stink. Every time he neared the G&R Recycling site and the waters that flow by its operations on Kanehsatake land, his nose filled with “the smell of opening a septic tank and sticking your head inside.

A few weeks ago, Kahnawakehró:non Frank Whitebean started a grassroots initiative - the Community Watch - that started out in the New Development, but expanded, to keep the people of Kahnawake safe after a series of reports regarding non-locals acting suspiciously.

Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door Ryan Montour was on a path of self-destruction when a lifestyle of drinking, drugging and high-risk behaviour finally caught up to him that one fateful night 10 years ago.  On March 2, 2011, Montour’s life changed forever after he left a local bar under the influence of drugs and alcohol and smashed head-on into a car driven by a man from Mercier.  Today, he’s a newly-elected Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chief, but back then, he was an addict of drugs and alcohol.  Montour was in the middle of heavy partying when he slipped behind the wheel of his white 2008 Dodge Charger, bolstered by a cocktail of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol.  He had been contemplating whether or not he should drive down Route 207 to his home in the village area.

When he was just a little boy, he watched his father and uncles working in construction and as ironworkers, and just like that, Kahnawa’kehró:non Chris Stacey was sold.

(Left: COURTESY KRISTINA RUDDICK Right: COURTESY IMDB) Who would have thought that one of Kahnawake’s own would be sipping tea and cracking jokes with critically-acclaimed director Taika Waititi?