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Quebec Native Women (QNW) and the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) are teaming up to create a new province-wide map that’ll compile the stories of those affected by the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people.  A two-day long event will be hosted at the Golden Age Club in town next week to encourage families in Kahnawake to participate in particular.

The next class of the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame (NAIAHF) has been announced, and Waneek Horn-Miller will be one of the honoured inductees of this year’s class.

A special community meeting is expected to be held soon to allow community members the chance to weigh in on which laws should be triaged by the Kahnawake Legislative Commission (KLC).

Brooklyn Leblanc hunkered down with many other people to stand up for Kanien’kehá:ka sovereignty in what became known as the Oka Crisis.

Karonhiaráhstha’s Winter Wonderland is in full swing for its 10th edition, taking place until this Saturday at 4 p.m. Twenty-one beautifully decorated trees are on display in a large, well-heated tent near Playground Poker this year, each donated and decorated by a business in town or by the family and loved ones of someone they wish to be memorialized by the tree.

It’s been one year since community members Derek White and Hunter Montour were granted a permanent stay of criminal procedures in a historic tobacco case.

For this year’s Orange Shirt Day, the Kontinónhstats ne Kanien’kéha Language and Culture Center (KKLC) and the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC)

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada’s election platform included the promise to implement all Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).  Once in power, the Trudeau Liberal government advanced a domestic interpretation of UNDRIP through Bill C-15, the United Nations Declaration Act and a government-wide National Action Plan that applies to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit, with a list of 181 federal measures/actions in five chapters.  In the First Nations chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”  For the past nine years, the Trudeau government has already started the process to end the Indian Act band/reserve system by transitioning all First Nations into municipal self-government with the legal status of a “natural person” (this is the same legal definition that applies to corporations)

As the sun began to set on Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered at Place du Canada in Montreal to commemorate the lives of six Indigenous people killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Remains of Kanien’kehá:ka that date back prior to colonization found during construction at St. Joseph’s Oratory will be reburied at another location on the oratory grounds, The Eastern Door has learned, following an agreement struck between the oratory and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).  The remains of the three individuals were found in the spring last year as the oratory was removing an old asphalt road leading up its slopes, said Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle, the archeologist for the MCK who was there as a monitor when the remains were uncovered.  “Most of these ancestral remains that were found are over 1,000 years old,” she said.