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Kahnawake was abuzz last weekend, with around 800 people coming out from across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to the 207 Longhouse for this year’s Fall Sing.

Marjolaine Etienne was elected president for a second four-year term at the Quebec Native Women (QNW)’s annual general assembly in Quebec City on December 1.

During the day, Kwahará:ni Jacobs and her four-year-old daughter, Atshennonnià:’a, head down to the Akwesasne Freedom School, and walk into Otsi’náhkwakon, the community’s language nest.

Canada was underfunding our on-reserve children for far too long, and now we are dealing with a secondary, potentially larger issue with a backlog of money that needs to be paid.

CN Rail released a long-anticipated reconciliation action plan this week, one initially expected to be made up entirely of recommendations from its former Indigenous advisory council - that being before they all quit en masse last year.

The community can expect new social housing units after the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced it has secured $1.4 million in government funding earmarked for housing in Indigenous communities.

It was a big day for Kahnawa’kehró:non at the First Nations Executive Education (FNEE) graduation this month, with six community members celebrating the completion of courses that will further their leadership skills.

The 10th edition of the Kateri Memorial Foundation (KMF)’s Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland has once again been a great success, as people in Kahnawake - and, increasingly, surrounding communities - come together to take in the holiday spirit, donate money to good causes, and try to win the elaborate tree displays put together by community organizations, businesses, and families.

The sharply cold temperatures finally arriving after what had so far been an unseasonably warm November did not deter hundreds of Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC)

In a ceremony held on the lower field of McGill University last Sunday morning, around 200 people gathered as a great white pine sapling, brought by Kanehsata’kehró:non Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel from the Pines in Kanehsatake, was planted into the ground.