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Thousands of people took to the streets of Montreal on Monday, dressed in shades of orange to commemorate the lives of Indigenous children sent to Residential School.

Over a hundred gathered in downtown Montreal last weekend to honour the life of Joyce Echaquan - an Atikamekw woman who tragically died in a Joliette hospital in 2020 after being denied basic medical care.

We’ve used the term “Every Child Matters” in different contexts in The Eastern Door, and I wanted to talk a little bit more about it in what is the freest form of journalism - my own column.

A petition led by youth from Dawson College CEGEP urging the province to exempt Indigenous students from French language requirements has been extended another month, giving more people time to voice their opinion on the students’ demands.

Wayne Delormier. Sonny Joe Cross. Sheila Boyer. Josie McGregor. Charles Stacey. Those were the names Helen Jarvis Montour read out loud Monday at the honour ceremony in Kahnawake held to mark Orange Shirt Day.

Orange Shirt Day, or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is a time to reflect on our residential school survivors and the ones who never made it home, but it’s also a good time to look within ourselves as Onkwehón:we to figure out ways to better protect our children and demonstrate more of that love we all sorely need.

For this year’s Orange Shirt Day, the Kontinónhstats ne Kanien’kéha Language and Culture Center (KKLC) and the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC)

On Tuesday morning, Kahnawa’kehró:non Tammy Whitebean saw rumours on social media that something serious was going on at Kahnawake Survival School, where her son is just weeks into seventh grade.

The crowd at Concordia’s third annual powwow was an enthusiastic one - with nearly 100 joining an intertribal held at the university’s Loyola campus last Friday.

It took a lot of work for Tahohtharátye Joe Brant to become the University of Victoria’s first-ever PhD graduate in Indigenous Language Revitalization.