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The latest edition of Iontkahthóhtha, the yearly art show put on by the Kanien’keháka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR) saw the work of 57 Onkwehón:we artists - painters, photographers, and artisans - displayed for all to see at the Kahnawake Legion Hall last week.

The Royal Canadian Legion Mohawk Branch 219 have completed what it’s president Ray Deer is calling “phase two” of the Hometown Heroes banner project, with the last few of this remaining batch of 51 banners being installed along Old Malone Highway last Friday.

Even in the boldest predictions that the K-Town Collectables Expo organizers - Will Rice, Mike Brathwaite, and Eric Ravenelle - could make about how this year’s show at the Mohawk Bingo would go, they would not have thought it would be as big and busy as it was on Sunday.

Last Thursday, May 8, was Victory in Europe Day, commemorating the day Nazi Germany formally surrendered in 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe.

A vision has been set in motion for the greenspace east of the CP tunnel, following over a year of community consultation. 

While driving around town, it’s hard not to notice the Hometown Heroes banners, there to honour veterans from the community.

More Kahnawa’kehró:non have joined the growing list of those awarded the King Charles III’s Coronation Medal this week. This time around it was the community’s veterans that were honoured, at a ceremony held Wednesday morning at the Royal Canadian Legion Mohawk Branch 219.

Moving to take the reins of the narrative in the wake of a Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) Ethics Commission ruling that the grand chief has vacated his seat, the remaining MCK chiefs brought their case to the media this week.

Ray Deer won’t be retiring just yet. The president of the Royal Canadian Legion Mohawk Branch 219 is now on his eighth consecutive term, following an election at the hall earlier this month.  “I'm hoping one of our younger veterans will be ready to step in, then I would be ready to step down,” said Deer, who ran unopposed.

After printing over 2,000 issues over the course of 42 years, Turtle Island’s longest-running Kanien’kehá:ka newspaper is calling it quits.  Indian Time, based in Akwesasne, ran its second-to-last print issue on November 14 and will run its last on December 19.  Editor Marjorie Skidders said they can no longer afford to print amid a stark plummet in ad revenue.  “It really is sad,” she told The Eastern Door.