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Courtesy Cindy Butler When Allison Deer learned she had been unanimously accepted for the alumni board position she had applied to just a few weeks before, she felt honoured to join the team at Cape Breton University (CBU).

Courtesy Jonel Beauvais On her grandmother’s 92nd birthday, Jonel Beauvais addressed pope Francis directly about the impacts of residential schools.

Courtesy Oreana Franchy In just 20 minutes, Ellen Gabriel has turned 32 years of reporting on its head, with the debut of her documentary film, “Kanatenhs - When The Pine Needles Fall,” which recently won Best Short Documentary from the LA Independent Women Film Awards eighth edition.

Courtesy Hudson Village Theatre When Hudson Village Theatre’s artistic director Dean Patrick Fleming asked actor and playwright Jimmy Blais to write an Indigenous production, it didn’t take long to figure out what it should be about.

Courtesy Arnold Boyer Ronald and Sheila Boyer met when they were teenagers in residential school, where they married two years later.

Handling the affairs of deceased Kahnawa’kehró:non and Kanehsata’kehró:non may have just gotten a little bit harder for already grieving loved ones.

Courtesy Wennekerakon Tiewishaw Revital Software, a company that specializes in the creation of Indigenous language revitalization games and resources, was selected as a 2022 Pow Wow Pitch semi-finalist.

Simona Rosenfield The Eastern Door Kahnawa’kehró:non and guests celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow Wow last weekend, after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

Last month, Bill C-226, An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice, passed second reading in the House of Commons.

Marisela Amador The Eastern Door The team from Nemaska took first place at the 31st annual Quebec Aboriginal Firefighter competition on Saturday, with Kahnawake as the close runner-up, followed by the community of Gesgapegiag.