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When Arsaniq was younger, she never considered tattooing would one day play such a huge role in her life.

Fourteen-year-old Laila Ken’niwa’kera:sa McComber was nervous, and a little chilly, as she stepped out to dance at the Montreal Victoire’s Indigenous Heritage Unity Game last weekend.

A new interactive, online map of the Montreal metro system was launched this past weekend, which aims to “pay tribute to the women who have played a vital role in the making of Montreal and its social, cultural, and economic prosperity,” according to the project’s website.

Quebec Native Women (QNW) and the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) are teaming up to create a new province-wide map that’ll compile the stories of those affected by the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people.  A two-day long event will be hosted at the Golden Age Club in town next week to encourage families in Kahnawake to participate in particular.

This year’s Chateauguay Valley Irish Heritage Association (CVIHA) Queen Selection and Celtic Celebration was a momentous affair, with more than 200 people in attendance to find out who would be the Queen and her court for their St. Patrick’s Day parade in March.

One of the last actions of the Biden administration was the release of a joint statement with Canada outlining both countries’ support for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to be able to participate in the lacrosse events at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles.

Last year’s Indigenous Winter Market, organized by Kanehsatà:ke Tourism, was an instant classic, and this year’s slate of vendors, activities, and performances is once again chock-full of cultural highlights.

Jessica Hernandez was nine years old when she starred in Sometimes When I Dream, a musical about when settlers first came to Turtle Island, and an alternative depiction of what might’ve happened.

Kahnawake artists will have an opportunity to show off some of their artistic talents and make their mark on the city of Beauharnois through a new contest that was recently announced.

Remains of Kanien’kehá:ka that date back prior to colonization found during construction at St. Joseph’s Oratory will be reburied at another location on the oratory grounds, The Eastern Door has learned, following an agreement struck between the oratory and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).  The remains of the three individuals were found in the spring last year as the oratory was removing an old asphalt road leading up its slopes, said Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle, the archeologist for the MCK who was there as a monitor when the remains were uncovered.  “Most of these ancestral remains that were found are over 1,000 years old,” she said.