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Kanehsata’kehró:non Brandon Bonspiel always loved reading – but he didn’t anticipate just how many pages he’d have to work through each week when he first embarked on his law degree at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.

After 36 years with the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC), director of education Robin Delaronde announced her impending retirement this week, which will come at the end of the 2024-25 school year.

Archives recently made public thanks to an access to information request shed light on why St. Nicholas Island is no longer considered part of Kahnawake.

Despite a rainy start, about 150 participants braved the elements for the 38th annual Mohawk Miles race on Sunday. The Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer and her wife Tami Jo Rice were paid to promote Birks, a jewellery company whose diamonds partly originate from mines said to have harmful effects on Indigenous communities in Canada.

The film opens with a close-up image of Pine needles so lush-green you can almost smell them, as a woman speaks Kanien’kéka, returning an absorbed audience to the events that set into motion the 78-day standoff known today as the Siege of Kanehsatake.

With an influential open letter and a trove of documents, an anonymous group of Kanehsata’kehró:non has brought countrywide attention to grave issues of land, safety, and the environment in the community.

Tracey Deer distinctly remembers the first time she saw Alanis Obomsawin’s Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance: she was studying film at Dartmouth College, and the documentary was being screened in one of her classes.

As the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) continues to mull over the years-old question of an “ecological gift” of Pines land from Grégoire Gollin, an attempt by municipality of Oka lawyers to leverage Kanesatake land claims against him has been rejected.

You might think it’s hard to stay humble after winning a $100,000 scholarship, but for Kahnawa’kehró:non Gracie Diabo, her achievements are one piece of a bigger picture of Kanien’kehá:ka excellence.