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  • October 4, 2024

    Indigenous Services confirms departure from Kahnawake 

    One of the worst-kept secrets was finally confirmed: Community members will have to go to downtown Montreal to receive new band cards as of 2025, with Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)

  • October 4, 2024

    Six-plex talks in progress 

    After a possible transfer of the six-plex was revealed at Meet the Candidates Night in June, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has confirmed discussions are underway to explore taking the development over from Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS).

  • October 4, 2024

    Children learn together

    When Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) director Watsenniiostha Nelson decided to start collaborating more with local schools surrounding the community back in the spring, she never dreamed of the success her initiative would see come the fall.

  • October 4, 2024

    Changes in Council Executive 

    Aianóhon Kaylia Marquis will be transitioning away from her role as Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) executive strategic and accountability officer (ESAO)

  • October 4, 2024

    Haudenosaunee men win bronze at Worlds  

    The men’s Haudenosaunee Nationals team turned a slow start into a bronze medal last weekend at the World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, New York.

  • October 3, 2024

    Library set for demolition 

    Any hope that Kahnawake’s library would one day reopen in its current location were squashed Monday, when it was officially decided by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

  • October 2, 2024

    Opinion: Concerned about the ‘New Path Forward’

    In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

  • October 1, 2024

    Wetlands next door to town at risk

    A group of environmentalists took to the streets in Chateauguay on Sunday to denounce a proposed housing project along Highway 30.

  • September 20, 2024

    Vigil highlights state violence

    As the sun began to set on Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered at Place du Canada in Montreal to commemorate the lives of six Indigenous people killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

  • September 19, 2024

    Council files suit vs. Montour

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has countersued the former head of Mohawk Online, accusing him of defamation and breach of contract for statements he made to The Eastern Door outlining the demise of the community’s internet gaming arm.  According to the MCK’s filing, former Mohawk Online CEO Dean Montour was warned by Council on June 25 not to disclose any confidential information about the community-owned entity, of which MCK is the sole shareholder.