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Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) grand chief Victor Bonspille called out the federal government while at the annual gathering for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN)

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo blasted federal minister Gary Anandasangaree while at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN)

This Sunday, May 5, marks the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S) – better known as Red Dress Day. With Red Dress Day coming up on the calendar, the government devoted dollars to the long-awaited, urgently needed Red Dress alert – the MMIWG2S equivalent of an Amber Alert – but don’t expect it to be operational anytime soon.

After two years in the works, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

A new framework for the working relationship between Kahnawake and the federal government is ready to move forward, the minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations signalled at an introductory meeting in Kahnawake last week.

The Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) building is moving, The Eastern Door has learned, but the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake has not come up with a plan B publicly yet, or even informed the community of the imminent departure of this vital service to Montreal.

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).

There’s renewed hope that American-born Onkwehón:we who share homelands north of the border could soon be granted new legal rights recognizing them as belonging to their respective nations.

The efforts of an anonymous group of Kanehsata’kehró:non has brought a deluge of attention to Kanesatake with the urgent message that the community has fallen into a “state of lawlessness and danger.” An open letter circulating amongst journalists and politicians names scourges such as toxic dump sites, dangerous criminal activity, and land “being stolen piece by piece by land developers and assimilated Mohawks treating Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands as if they were all for the taking.” In part by providing a trove of related documents, the group sparked a La Presse investigation into G&R Recycling that brought the issue roaring back into mainstream discourse.

The Quebec government will be contributing $11 million to the new multi-purpose building project, which is set to house the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR), Turtle Island Theatre, and Kahnawake Tourism.