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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.

Thirty-four years to the day after the Siege of Kanehsatake came to an end, supporters packed into an old church in downtown Montreal for the release of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel’s latest work, a book titled When The Pine Needles Fall, co-authored by Sean Carleton.

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)

Jason Picard-Binet, owner of moccasins brand Bastien Canada, is sick and tired of seeing the cultural appropriation of Indigenous designs in the fashion industry.

When news broke in 2021 that the graves of missing children had been found at the former Kamloops Residential School, many non-Natives were shocked.

The ongoing construction of an electric car battery plant in the Monteregie has the potential to cause “irreversible harm” to wildlife and biodiversity in Kahnawake’s traditional territory should it continue to move ahead as planned, an environmental advisor for the Mohawk Council Kahnawake (MCK)

Months after a soil sampling attempt led to aggression against two Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) chiefs, prompting Quebec’s environment ministry to cancel the tests, the province has enacted interventions on dumping that could lead to massive fines.

This fall, Karonhianóron Dallas Canady-Binette will be starting their graduate studies in anthropology at McGill University. Canady-Binette, who is from Kanesatake, was excited to take McGill’s 300-level beginner Kanien’kéha course, but they ran into a roadblock: the course is technically classified as an undergraduate course, and as a graduate student, Canady-Binette wouldn’t be permitted to take it.

A record-breaking $115,000 was raised at the 2024 Tewathohnhi’saktha Business Golf Challenge, this year benefitting the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC). Each year, Tewathohnhi’saktha asks for proposals from potential beneficiaries, which are then deliberated by its board of directors.