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Back in 2018, Cree composer Andrew Balfour was visiting Saint Joseph’s Oratory on Mount Royal, when his late wife mentioned Kateri Tekakwitha. Kateri, Balfour learned, was a Mohawk woman from the 1600s, who became the first Indigenous saint from North America when she was canonized in 2012.

Last week’s Indigenous Nurses Day celebration in Kahnawake was truly generational – from 96-year-old Helen Skye, who became a nurse in 1951, to 29-year-old Rebecca Boyer, who graduated from her nurse practitioner program last summer, it was a day to recognize the efforts of Kahnawake’s nurses past and present.

The First Nations Education Council (FNEC) marked its 40th anniversary by honouring key figures who helped transform Indigenous education, including longtime educator and advocate Linda Simon.

In perhaps the ultimate sign of the times, communities everywhere are debating taking down statues.

There have been many stops along the way that led to Heather White being recognized as the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television, and Radio Artists (ACTRA)’s 2026 Woman of the Year, but for White, there’s none more important than the community theatre scene that raised her right here in Kahnawake.

On March 8, the community and the world mark International Women’s Day, which is not just a moment to express appreciation but also an opportunity to reflect on the place women and girls have in society, culture, and our lives.

Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle is used to digging at archeological sites – and she’s also used to digging out space for herself as an Indigenous woman in the archeology field.

On the roof above the door facing River Road,  just below the Kateri School emblem, stands a statue of the only Kanien’kehá:ka saint, the school’s namesake, Kateri Tekakwitha, her hands cradling a cross.

The man who compared himself to Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa is saying goodbye.

Star laxer Ava Weriasanoron Gabriel has reached yet another milestone, this time being the first overall selection in the Women’s Arena Lacrosse League (ALL) East draft for the Arrows.