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The world of Native fashion is exploding lately, with more and more Onkwehón:we designers sharing their works on catwalks around the world. The latest venue for Indigenous fashionistas was in New Mexico, with some of Kahnawake’s own talent heading to Santa Fe for the first edition of Santa Fe’s Native Fashion Week.

Brooke Rice was representing Kahnawake and sharing ideas with Onkwehón:we from across Turtle Island and the world at the seventh edition of the International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference, this year held in the Maya Center Village of Stann Creek District in Belize.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) must prevent cannabis dispensaries before it’s too late, representatives of the 207 Longhouse demanded as hundreds of Kahnawa'kehró:non confronted Council chiefs outside the band office Wednesday. 

Early last Friday morning, Kanehsata’kehró:non Celyne Gaspé was lying awake in bed when she heard what she thought was freezing rain tick-tick-ticking outside her window.

The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) did not go it alone at the Supreme Court of Canada, which heard Council’s appeal last month against Sylvestre et al. 

Journalism generally takes on two approaches: opinions in the form of editorials and columns, and written articles. When sitting down to write an editorial, you must take a pretty strong stance on an issue important to all.

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

An investigation is now underway over the sale of hunted meat in Kahnawake, Quebec’s environmental ministry has confirmed. The investigation being carried out by wildlife officers was triggered following the publication of articles in Le Journal de Montréal that framed the sale of game in the territory as a “black market.” The reporting targeted community member Shane Stacey in particular, the hunter behind Wild Bush Cuts.

It can be fun to make a Top 5 Christmas wish list for the entire community, but this one isn’t about chocolate and a train set, although Kahnawake should be getting money for the actual train tracks that litter the community, but we digress on that, at least for now.

It was a big day for Kahnawa’kehró:non at the First Nations Executive Education (FNEE) graduation this month, with six community members celebrating the completion of courses that will further their leadership skills.