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More than 50 years on from the publishing of the historic Lalonde Report, leads at the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program (KSDPP) say that systemic barriers to closing gaps in health outcomes for Indigenous people remain.

Appropriate funding of Indigenous-led conservation efforts may be the key to solving the global climate crisis, a new study from Concordia University has found, with data showing that Indigenous-led projects match or surpass similar initiatives with the correct supports.

A $50,000 donation from the Anglican Church will go towards helping Kahnawake archive its oral history, part of a project that coordinator Gerald Taiaiake Alfred says will ensure future generations of Kahnawa’kehró:non have access to easily forgotten information about the community.

Anyone who has set foot in a non-Native school in this province - or even just seen the ignorant comments from some of Kahnawake’s neighbours rage-posting in traffic jams - knows that education about Indigenous issues in this country gets a big fat F-minus.

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.

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).

When Evan Konwá:wi Stacey boards a plane to Sunderland, England next month, she’ll be carrying far more than a passport and a playbook.

Kahnawake might be just a few years away from seeing the construction of a brand new Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC), outfitted with facilities that many in the community have been dreaming of for years.

Six years ago, Raienthókwas Angus Horne was in the throes of addiction. Back then, he could never have predicted the role that learning Kanien’kéha would play in his recovery.

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.