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Children attending public schools outside of Kahnawake may be at risk of losing access to certain support services and initiatives, after the Quebec Ministry of Education (MEQ)

A class action settlement for Indigenous children and families involved in the child welfare system between 1991 and 2022 is set to open next month, with a Kahnawake-based liaison appointed to assist community members with submitting their claims.

Falen Iakowennaiéwas Jacobs is now taking on a more active leadership role as director of education at the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC), now that her onboarding process has wrapped up.

Win or lose, seeing the Montreal Canadiens play at the Bell Centre is always a special experience, and for at least one group of Kahnawa’kehró:non, Saturday’s game was one to remember.

Kiona Akohseràke Deer was moved between different group homes and foster care units at least 20 times before she even turned 18.

Dennen Phillips always loved theatre, but stage fright kept him in the audience for many years. It all changed when he got involved with Turtle Island Theatre, and Kevin John Saylor cast him in a production of Anything Goes in 2012.  But the timing of Phillips’ theatrical debut was ill-fated.

Courtesy Carol McCormick “This whole past year was about hanging on,” said Kahnawa’kehró:non Tonia Williams, who was forced to confront the sins of her church against her own people.

(Courtesy First Nations Child and Family Caring Society) “Discrimination is when the government doesn’t think you’re worth the money.” According to Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, these words were uttered by a child her organization was working with.