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With one week left in their 10-game regular season, the U15 Fall Ball Warhawks are looking to keep their momentum going before the playoffs.

Two exciting changes are coming to The Eastern Door this month: elders over 65 will now be able to access free online subscriptions, and for the duration of October, all articles published in the newspaper will appear on our website for free.

Thirty-four years to the day after the Siege of Kanehsatake came to an end, supporters packed into an old church in downtown Montreal for the release of Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel’s latest work, a book titled When The Pine Needles Fall, co-authored by Sean Carleton.

Consultations led by PlanIT Consulting over greenspace east of the CP tunnel are wrapping up as of today. A six-person working group will now analyze over 100 responses from community members asked to weigh in on the future of the 14-acre stretch of land by the Office Complex along the Old Malone Highway.  Over the last six months, Kahnawa’kehró:non were consulted on two different proposals being considered for how to beautify the area.

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

The chess match between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake and former Mohawk Online Limited (MOL) CEO Dean Montour continued this week, as Montour’s legal team answered the MCK’s countersuit against him that demanded $45,000, in what the Council terms a breach of confidential information.

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chapter, the plan gives public notice that for “Canada’s laws to fulfill the UN Declaration, the Indian Act must be repealed.”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

When news broke in 2021 that the graves of missing children had been found at the former Kamloops Residential School, many non-Natives were shocked.

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.