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  • October 1, 2016

    The Break is a powerful, engaging and important debut

    Katherena Vermette followed up her groundbreaking and heartbreaking, Governor General Award-winning book of poems with a powerful and impressive debut novel, The Break.

  • September 26, 2016

    Hochelaga Rock honoured in prominent spot

    At a ceremony Thursday, the Hochelaga Rock's new location along McGill University's main driveway was honoured, as community members such as Alex "Sonny"

  • July 20, 2016

    Mikinak community continues to ruffle feathers

    The Mikinak de Monteregie is not the only self-identified Aboriginal community that has caused concern for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake.

  • July 13, 2016

    Powwow inquisition part of Canada's shame

    By: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door The “inquisition” on traditional dances, songs and rituals of our ancestors mainly touched the western province up until the mid 1950s since most eastern First Nations were than more likely abiding to the Indian Act and the Christian values, being in touch with Europeans for a longer period.

  • July 11, 2016

    “I’d like to see you try to get your oil changed in Chateauguay,” said a mother in 1990

    U.S. Navy first-class petty officer Lois Montour’s trip home to Kahnawake in 1990 was unlike any holiday before or after, and it led to the 25-year-old becoming a VIP.

  • July 1, 2016

    Summer student scoop: Happy Canada Day? A complicated experiment

    This is Peter Phillips - he's The Eastern Door's 2016 summer student. (Jessica Deer, The Easter Door) Today is Canada Day and the country turns 149 years old.

  • June 20, 2016

    Finding a stable identity through the language

    The latest Kanien’kéha Ratiwennahní:rats Adult Immersion Program graduation Wednesday, June 8 at the  207 Longhouse, saw Brooke Rice (second from bottom left), and her classmates end a two-year journey.

  • June 17, 2016

    First People’s Festival lineup makes a splash

    The 2015 award-winning American drama Mekko, from Sterlin Harjo, features a man who finds a community after being released from prison in Tulsa and uses his grandmother’s practices to push out a man with an evil personality.

  • June 8, 2016

    Young, eager and ready for the next challenge

    Skahtehrí:io Goodleaf turns 20 in July and will take his language and culture with him wherever he goes, as he continues his lifelong journey of learning Kanien’kéha and the ways of his people.

  • May 13, 2016

    Canada says yes to Indigenous rights

    Tania Larivière, right, was one of the Indigenous youth from Quebec who attended the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues this week in New York City.