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Spirits are high as the Kanehsatake Warriors kick off their official training for the lacrosse season, but the roster remains without an all-girls team this year.

The National Aboriginal Hockey Championships (NAHC) are always a memorable experience for all the players who get to participate in the annual tournament.

Interest in Senior lacrosse is growing - not just in Kahnawake, where the Sturgeon Bellies of the Circuit Provincial de Crosse Senior (CPCS) Senior C league will compete in their second season, but province-wide with the addition of two new teams to the league this year.

Although the Kahnawake Junior B Hunters are 3-2 at time of writing - they will have played against the Nepean Knights on Thursday night after The Eastern Door’s publishing deadline - the team has not been out of any games, with both losses decided by two or fewer goals.

Last year, it took four games for the Kahnawake Junior C Hunters to get their first-ever regular season win to start their inaugural season. 

Skawennahawi Miller-Morgan is officially a national champion, having co-led her team to glory at the 16U National Water Polo Championships held in Surrey, British Columbia, last week.

As the Montreal Victoire head into game four of the first round of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) playoffs tonight (Friday) they’ll have the support of many young hockey fans behind them - especially from the young Kahnawa’kehró:non here in town, who one day want to follow in the footsteps of the pro players.

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.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo told federal leadership at the Jay Treaty Border Alliance (JTBA) High Table this week that he’s tired of the government “playing the Trump card,” when it comes to advocating for First Nations, arguing that the decisions of the American president can’t become a roadblock in furthering the rights of Indigenous communities.

Last week, caretaker council member Serge Otsi Simon and Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) education director Watsenniostha Nelson attended the First Nations Education Council’s (FNEC) annual general meeting in Quebec City, where they discussed ways to fund and strengthen Indigenous education.