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August 15, 2022Kahnawa’kehró:non advances advocacy in new role
Courtesy Cindy Butler When Allison Deer learned she had been unanimously accepted for the alumni board position she had applied to just a few weeks before, she felt honoured to join the team at Cape Breton University (CBU).
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August 12, 2022Feather Gardens production lands laughs
Courtesy Hudson Village Theatre It’s no easy feat to get a room full of settlers to laugh at themselves, but the Hudson Village Theatre’s production of Feather Gardens accomplished that and much more. Feather Gardens, written by Jimmy Blais, stars a patch of land in the town of Hudson, a non-Indigenous settlement located across the Ottawa River from Kanesatake.
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August 11, 2022A private apology from the pope
Courtesy Jonel Beauvais On her grandmother’s 92nd birthday, Jonel Beauvais addressed pope Francis directly about the impacts of residential schools.
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August 8, 2022Gabriel directs award-winning film on the Pines
Courtesy Oreana Franchy In just 20 minutes, Ellen Gabriel has turned 32 years of reporting on its head, with the debut of her documentary film, “Kanatenhs - When The Pine Needles Fall,” which recently won Best Short Documentary from the LA Independent Women Film Awards eighth edition.
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August 5, 2022Kahnawake reacts to pope visit
Courtesy Arnold Boyer Ronald and Sheila Boyer met when they were teenagers in residential school, where they married two years later.
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August 2, 2022Showcasing excellence in the arts
Montreal’s First Peoples Festival, or Présence autochtone, is back bigger than ever before with a 2022 schedule full of the best in Indigenous art, from here and all around the world.
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August 1, 2022Expect long delays for estate management
Handling the affairs of deceased Kahnawa’kehró:non and Kanehsata’kehró:non may have just gotten a little bit harder for already grieving loved ones.
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July 27, 2022Mohawk TikTokers bring culture to their followers
Courtesy Owen Skahionwiio Mayo Owen Skahionwiio Mayo is known to nearly 25,000 TikTok followers as @modern_mohawk, and it’s clear that he lives up to his handle.
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July 26, 2022Promoting the language gets trio noticed
Courtesy Wennekerakon Tiewishaw Revital Software, a company that specializes in the creation of Indigenous language revitalization games and resources, was selected as a 2022 Pow Wow Pitch semi-finalist.
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July 11, 2022
Environmental racism bill closer to becoming law
Last month, Bill C-226, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice, passed second reading in the House of Commons.
