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As 2025 draws to a close and we prepare to welcome 2026, The Eastern Door staff took a look back at the last 12 months of news in Kahnawake. And, as we find ourselves saying every year, what a year it has been! From major arts projects for some of Kahnawake’s finest acting talent to community protests about cannabis and traffic, we’ve recapped it all below.

More than 10,000 people took to Montreal’s Bell Centre this weekend to express their outrage over a controversial law that changes how doctors in Quebec are paid - a law that health experts in Kahnawake say could exacerbate problems the community already faces with retaining and recruiting physicians.

An almost four hour-long wrestling show sounds like a daunting task to put together, and perhaps a lot to ask of fans to sit through uninterrupted, in-person or online.

As media, our job comes with a grave responsibility, and if we don’t take that seriously, we don’t belong in the business.

On September 28, 2025, communities across Quebec marked five years since the death of Joyce Echaquan, an Atikamekw mother who died in a Joliette hospital in 2020 while live-streaming the racist abuse she faced from medical staff.

In October 2021, just over a year after Joyce Echaquan died in the Joliette hospital, the coroner’s report concluded that racism and prejudice contributed to her death.

Sherry Archambault remembers her daughter Zoey Harnest as full of music.

“She loved music. All music, even classical music,” Archambault said. “She was a good, good soul.”

It’s been 24 years already, a generation, two decades: a lifetime.

This week was International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day (September 9) and World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), with Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) offering an informational session outside its main building on Tuesday to underline those two days.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) will see nearly $200,000 flow into the community over the next two years, in an agreement that could serve as a model for other First Nations across Turtle Island.