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Two fresh faces from Kahnawake have joined the team at the Native Para-Judicial Services of Quebec, ready to lend a helping hand to Indigenous people navigating the provincial court system.

When Karonhienhawe Nicole Nicholas heard there was someone at the beach with a bunch of dogs, she went to check it out. There were no dogs in sight, but she did find a 27-year-old man sitting on a concrete slab with a bicycle, a trailer, and a Swiss accent.

The past few months have been jam-packed for Kanehsata’kehró:non Julia Kanathiiostha Lazore – while juggling getting married in May and graduating from the Ratiwennenhá:wi Adult Immersion program in June, she’s spent every morsel of free time preparing for the Miss Indigenous Canada pageant, which took place in Six Nations of the Grand River last weekend.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is one of three core members of a research project looking to re-examine the understanding of the history of what the project is calling Ancestral Iroquoia - namely the relationships between the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples.

For the Kahnawake Hunters, this moment is what this season has always been about: avenging last year’s loss in the Ontario Junior B Lacrosse League (OJBLL) finals to get another chance at the Founder’s Cup.

Following a 12-game regular season, their first as a fully fledged member of the Three Nations Senior Lacrosse League (TNSLL), the Kahnawake Senior B Mohawks find themselves down 1-0 in their opening best-of-three series with the Akwesasne Bucks.

Though the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)’s 45-day moratorium on retail cannabis sales lifts today, nothing is set to change in the community, with progress on the cannabis file and a decision about its future at a standstill without any Kahnawake Cannabis Control Board (KCCB) members.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo was one of multiple attendees to walk out of a meeting with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney last week, in an event that Diabo characterized as more of a PR stunt than a meaningful consultation.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chiefs Melanie Morrison and Tonya Perron represented Kahnawake in Geneva last week, pushing forward the urgent need for meaningful implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

Community members are being invited to participate in the early stages of forming proposed legislation concerning hot mix asphalt production in Kahnawake, with written feedback and open consultation sessions taking place in the coming weeks.