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More than a year after a wave of dump trucks carrying contaminated soil began streaming into Kanesatake, a Superior Court judge issued an emergency injunction order Monday to halt illegal dumping until the request can be considered again next Friday.

One of the worst-kept secrets was finally confirmed: Community members will have to go to downtown Montreal to receive new band cards as of 2025, with Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)

Water shut-offs are starting in the community, after a prolonged grace period for the $59 annual water fee that community members pay to the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).

As the last artist pricked their final dot of ink into a community member’s skin at midnight on Sunday, Karonhienhawe Nicholas breathed a sigh of relief, reflecting on another successful year of the annual Kanehsatà:ke Traditional Indigenous Tattoo Gathering.

McGill University’s third annual Legacy Game took place on Monday evening, with players wearing orange jerseys to honour the victims and survivors of the residential school system.

The men’s Haudenosaunee Nationals team turned a slow start into a bronze medal last weekend at the World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, New York.

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chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”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)

The annual McGill University Powwow was a hit last Friday, especially with Kahnawa’kehró:non who showed up to dance, vend, and share in the celebration.

Quebec is seeking an emergency injunction against nearly 20 defendants, mostly Kanehsata’kehró:non, revealing that soils used to illegally fill in lots on the Lake of Two Mountains were contaminated, confirming long-held suspicions.

On Tuesday morning, Kahnawa’kehró:non Tammy Whitebean saw rumours on social media that something serious was going on at Kahnawake Survival School, where her son is just weeks into seventh grade.