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For Kahnawa’kehró:non Brooke Rice - co-founder of the local food sovereignty project Tkà:nios - access to quality, locally grown foods is about more than nutrition.

Social media isn’t always a positive place, but this week it helped a treasured piece of community history find its way back home to Six Nations, thanks to the work of a local business, two thrifters, and a former non-profit president.

Being an Indigenous person automatically makes you a story collector and a storyteller. Whether it be through oral storytelling, written storytelling, or visual storytelling, our job as Onkwehón:we is to listen to the stories from our elders and pass them down to the next generation.

They will no longer be running on Indian Time. Sadly, Akwesasne will be, by the end of this year, devoid of an independent media free of overt political influence, and whether you live there or not, you should be concerned.

Although we hate to reuse certain phrases, “one of the worst-kept secrets” has popped up too often this year with the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).

Of his own admission, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Arnold Boyer is not one to usually sport facial hair.

Kahnawake is taking the lead in mobilizing First Nations across the country to support Bill S-268. The proposed law, if adopted, would enshrine those nations’ right to establish, conduct, and manage their own gaming businesses, such as casinos.  The Council table had previously been opposed to the bill but has since changed its tune after the senator that sponsored it agreed to push for amendments they’d asked for.  Senator Scott Tannas shared that commitment with The Eastern Door earlier this September.    The way the bill is currently worded doesn’t account for the online gaming industry – one the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) has announced the creation of an Ethics Commission, envisioned as an impartial body that can navigate disputes arising from the Custom Electoral Code.

The annual Akwesasne Fashion Show is set to be an event to remember this year, with tickets selling out within just three days.

Jessica Hernandez was nine years old when she starred in Sometimes When I Dream, a musical about when settlers first came to Turtle Island, and an alternative depiction of what might’ve happened.