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  • January 26, 2024

    Government ignored them, Council alleges

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) filed a lawsuit at Quebec Superior Court against the provincial and federal governments this week to demand both governments consult with them over the expected construction of a battery plant in the Monteregie.

  • January 26, 2024

    Feds back site assessment for G&R

    A lawyer representing Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille sought to undermine a band council resolution to initiate preliminary work on the toxic G&R Recycling site, claiming that the majority of chiefs have been removed from office.

  • January 25, 2024

    New dictionary connects past and present

    Around 10 years ago, a linguist with experience in Haudenosaunee languages, Karin Michelson, was invited by three Oneida women to assist them in going through the archives of one of the world’s best-known museums.

  • January 19, 2024

    Canada sought to weaken declaration

    Newly unsealed documents reveal Canadian officials were actively colluding with the Australian government behind closed doors in the early 2000s to write a weakened version of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

  • January 18, 2024

    Delisle resigns from Council table

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Mike Delisle was shocked when doctors told him in early October that he was suffering from a case of pneumonia.

  • January 17, 2024

    Alfred’s book named one of year’s best

    Gerald Taiaiake Alfred said it’s a pleasant surprise to see his most recent book make the top-100 best books of 2023 list by the Hill Times.

  • January 11, 2024

    The year of little progress

    When we first started writing about the year that was, 2023, we read over the recaps (see pages 6, 9, 21) of the top stories of the year.

  • December 14, 2023

    Quebec appeals White decision

    Last month, Derek White and Hunter Montour made history, being granted a permanent stay of criminal proceedings in one of the most high-profile tobacco trade cases to date, after a Quebec Superior Court judge gave recognition to historic treaty rights including the Covenant Chain.

  • December 11, 2023

    Feds appeal to fight self-determination

    The White and Montour tobacco case is a major victory for Kahnawa’kehró:non and a big set-back for the federal government’s unilateral self-government policy.

  • November 23, 2023

    Local arrested after alarming incident

    A Kahnawa’kehró:non is in custody and facing breaking-and-entering charges following an incident at a home on Veterans Boulevard earlier this weekend.