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Courtesy Arts Commons When Thea Thomas picked up the phone for our interview, she was sitting at a sewing machine working on her next project: a two-by-eight woven wall hanging for a show in Red Deer early into the new year.

Years ago, when the detox unit at Montreal’s CHUM hospital was receiving only one or two Indigenous clients per year, staff confiscated an Onkwehón:we’s beading needles.

File photo The situation between elected officials at the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) appears to be unravelling. On Friday, September 16, another altercation occurred that led to the arrest of chief Brant Etienne for allegedly assaulting chief Valerie Bonspille.

Pauline Lahache has been visiting her husband Billy Two Rivers in the hospital for many years, but it was only fairly recently her intuition told her something was seriously off.

Courtesy Christy Lahache Christy Lahache, who lives in a household of seven people, needed somewhere quiet to take a phone call for this article.

Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door Ryan Montour was on a path of self-destruction when a lifestyle of drinking, drugging and high-risk behaviour finally caught up to him that one fateful night 10 years ago.  On March 2, 2011, Montour’s life changed forever after he left a local bar under the influence of drugs and alcohol and smashed head-on into a car driven by a man from Mercier.  Today, he’s a newly-elected Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chief, but back then, he was an addict of drugs and alcohol.  Montour was in the middle of heavy partying when he slipped behind the wheel of his white 2008 Dodge Charger, bolstered by a cocktail of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol.  He had been contemplating whether or not he should drive down Route 207 to his home in the village area.

Courtesy Timmy Norton  Last month, Timmy Norton received a distressing email regarding the machine he needs to help with his sleep apnea.

After an involved campaign and the tireless work of the COVID-19 Task Force, mixed with community solidarity, the vaccination rollout has come to an end.

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