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Sherry Archambault remembers her daughter Zoey Harnest as full of music.

“She loved music. All music, even classical music,” Archambault said. “She was a good, good soul.”

Last week’s Indigenous Health Research Summit co-organized by the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program (KSDPP), PlanIt Consulting & Communications, and the Tahatikonhsontóntie’ Quebec Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (Qc-NEIHR) was the first of its kind in town, but KSDPP program director Coreen Delormier already knows it won’t be the last.

In the early hours of August 19, 2025, at precisely 12:47 a.m., a healthy baby boy was brought into the world under the glow of the moon at the Tekontateriéntare Multigenerational Center for Women’s Wellness at the Tsontkwahtentionhátie farm in Kanesatake.

Community members have been selling luminaries and preparing their groups for the 2025 edition of the Purple Ribbon Walk/Tetewatatia’takéhnhahs, set to take place tomorrow evening (Saturday) at Karonhianónhnha School.

The Kateri Memorial Foundation (KMF) disbursed more money than ever before at the 10th edition of its Karonhiaráhstha Scholarship Award Ceremony last week, supporting 40 of Kahnawake’s brightest young minds as they pursue careers in the medical field.n

The Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program will be hosting the Indigenous Health Research Summit (IHRS) from September 10-12 in a collaborative effort with the Tahatikonhsontóntie’ Quebec Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (Qc-NEIHR).

A brand-new ultrasound machine will help ensure community members can receive the care they need at the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC), eliminating the long wait times faced by those forced to get ultrasounds at nearby hospitals in the absence of services in town.

Dr. Kona Williams, the first Indigenous person in Canada to be a forensic pathologist, will be tackling a new challenge - this time in the field of education, being named the new section chair in pathology at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) on June 27.

For Tanner Phillips, the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to training the next generation of local paramedics. After all, his students could be called upon to treat members of his own family.

In the eyes of director Jimmy Blais, Jordan River Anderson is a hero. For the youth that turned out to see his play Jordan at Centaur Theatre in Montreal, that’s exactly how they saw him too.