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With huge smiles and an abundance of medals around their necks, Kahnawake’s athletes returned from the 2023 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG)

Karihwakatste Deer, coordinator at the Iakwahwatsiratátie Language Nest, was having a quiet morning until she received a call from Tammy Whitebean informing her that she would be stopping by.

Before Jayla White got on the bus to Halifax to compete in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), her mother jokingly told her to bring home some medals.

When Carey Terrance, Jr., arrived home to Akwesasne after winning gold at the 2023 IIHF World Under-18 Hockey Championship with the Erie Otters earlier this year, the whole community threw a parade and lined the streets to celebrate.

At 19, Cameryn Meloche set out to British Columbia, motivated by a craving to see more of the world. “I really wanted to go as far as possible,” she said.

Last September, Konwatharani Jacobs took her first hesitant steps onto the powwow floor. Her then five-year-old daughter Iako’tarakehte, her reason for dancing, cheekily let go of her hand at the last minute and whispered “I always dance!

When Konwasé:ti Mariah Kirby enrolled in university – a little apprehensive but mostly enthused – she didn’t know what the next six years leading up to her graduation would look like.

The communique for Monday’s community meeting gave a start time of 6 p.m., but a Facebook post explained that the first presentation had been rescheduled for half an hour later.

The sound of jingles filled the air in the Old Port this Wednesday as people from all walks of life gathered to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day.  “You can sit down and be a lump on a log.

Hundreds of Kahnawa’kehró:non gathered on the grounds of the Kahnawake Sports Complex this week for a community picnic to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day.