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Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Jeremiah Johnson told a Standing Senate Committee this week that Kahnawake remains opposed to Bill S-2, which is currently being considered in the House of Commons.

When Kyle Kaientó:ton Williams took a brief break from his studies at Concordia University to focus on music in 2016, he thought he’d be able to dip back in and finish what he started whenever he wished.

For McGill University Indigenous Language Revitalization master’s student Arihwisaks Colin Benedict, who is Kanien’kehá:ka from Akwesasne, last week’s Tsitewatá:ti: Let Us Speak Again language symposium achieved the goal he had set out to achieve - to bring language revitalizers together in one place to share ideas and experiences.

Organizers say collaboration is at the heart of an upcoming language symposium at McGill University, where Onkwehón:we from around the world will come together to share their experiences and goals in the field of language revitalization.

Last week’s Indigenous Nurses Day celebration in Kahnawake was truly generational – from 96-year-old Helen Skye, who became a nurse in 1951, to 29-year-old Rebecca Boyer, who graduated from her nurse practitioner program last summer, it was a day to recognize the efforts of Kahnawake’s nurses past and present.

As winter gives way to spring, members of the Mohawk Trail Longhouse express gratitude in ceremony for the maple trees - the Wáhta – that are so fundamental to Kanien’kehá:ka culture, a source of nourishment and medicine.

É:so iohserá:ke tsi náhe, Wahiakè:ron George Gilbert roió’tehkwe’, shihohrhá:re’ aontkennorehseróhetste’, tsi ó:nen rawennékeri wahèn:ron’ nahò:tenk néne taiora’nén:take’ rao’nikòn:rakon.

There are just a few days left for community members to take part in the Community Gambling Survey, a project from Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia’takéhnhas Community Services (KSCS) and Concordia University that aims to shed light on gambling behaviours across different demographics in Kahnawake.

Decades ago, Wahiaké:ron George Gilbert was on the job, waiting for the rain to pass, when his superintendent said something that stuck with him.

A recording initiative led by the Tsi Ronterihwanónhnha ne Kanien’kéha Language and Cultural Center aims to preserve the voices, stories, and language of elders in Kanesatake for future generations.