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After a judge rejected an attempt by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC) to wrest the Magic Palace lawsuit from provincial courts in November, the KGC has been granted leave to appeal the decision.

Brooklyn Leblanc hunkered down with many other people to stand up for Kanien’kehá:ka sovereignty in what became known as the Oka Crisis.

For more than two years, Kimberly Murray has served as a special intervenor in the Mohawk Mothers’ fight against McGill University and the Societe quebecoise des infrastructures (SQI)

Just four months into the job, Rice Mohawk Steel and Quebec have agreed to tear up a $36 million contract to maintain the LaSalle side of the Mercier Bridge following lengthy delays - and a failure to secure access to community land occupied by rival contractor Mohawk Bridge Consortium (MBC).

It’s been one year since community members Derek White and Hunter Montour were granted a permanent stay of criminal procedures in a historic tobacco case.

The Mohawk Mothers, also known as the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera, have filed a motion in Ottawa with the Supreme Court of Canada, seeking an independent investigation into possible unmarked graves at the site of the former Royal Victoria Hospital site.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has agreed to investigate allegations that Quebec’s 22 First Nation and Inuit police forces are being discriminated against through chronic underfunding.

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

The owners of Magic Palace have filed legal actions against the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Kahnawake Gaming Commission (KGC), urging Quebec’s Superior Court to restore the facility’s right to operate Electronic Gaming Devices (EGDs)

Archives recently made public thanks to an access to information request shed light on why St. Nicholas Island is no longer considered part of Kahnawake.