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Standing in the dressing room at Place Bell in front of professional hockey legends like Marie-Philip Poulin and Abby Roque might seem intimidating, but for 17-year-old Niiohentaa Diabo, the nerves melted away as soon as she started to speak.

Preventing gendered harm and addressing human trafficking was top of mind for attendees at the National Family and Survivor’s Circle inaugural Responsible Resource Leadership Forum, where Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Melanie Morrison was in attendance representing Kahnawake.

Indigenous, federal, and provincial leaders came together last week for a meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People (MMIWG2S+), discussing strategies to help address the National Action Plan laid out in 2021.

A huge line snaked through the Kahnawake Survival School (KSS) gymnasium last Wednesday, as Kahnawake’s next generation of budding hockey players and fans waited for their turn to meet Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) legend Abby Roque, one of the Montreal Victoire’s top scorers.

As 2025 draws to a close and we prepare to welcome 2026, The Eastern Door staff took a look back at the last 12 months of news in Kahnawake. And, as we find ourselves saying every year, what a year it has been! From major arts projects for some of Kahnawake’s finest acting talent to community protests about cannabis and traffic, we’ve recapped it all below.

It was a huge year for sports in Kahnawake, with championship wins and draft selections going along with medals, much effort, and lots of fun!

Kanehsata’kehró:non Mary Hannaburg has been at many tables over the years where the Indian Act was debated, but she believes recently passed amendments to Bill S-2, which would axe the second-generation cut-off rule, are more promising than ever before.

Quebec Native Women (QNW), the organization that seeks to represent the interests of Indigenous women throughout the province, responded via press release to the report by the Quebec ombudsperson that the province is not doing enough to implement the Viens Commission’s 142 calls to action.

A new bill that would amend the Indian Act could see thousands of individuals become entitled to status that weren’t before, a situation that Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Jeremiah Johnson said could be problematic.

Attending his hearing without a lawyer on Friday, Timmy Etienne, one of 13 defendants facing charges under the federal Fisheries Act for work carried out on the shoreline of the Lake of Two Mountains, entered a plea of not guilty.