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Kanesatake’s general election was cancelled on the eve of election day, with the electoral officer blaming a flawed electoral code for a mountain of irregularities, escalating the community’s governance problems into a full-blown crisis and leaving Kanehsata’kehró:non scrambling to make sense of their new political reality.

In a continuation of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)’s efforts in economic development and economic sovereignty, the MCK and Alberta’s Tsuut’ina Nation signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) last Saturday, a first step in free trade collaboration between the two communities and, potentially, other communities going forward.

Voters looking to cast their ballots in the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections will be headed to the polls tomorrow, Saturday, August 2.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo was one of multiple attendees to walk out of a meeting with Canadian prime minister Mark Carney last week, in an event that Diabo characterized as more of a PR stunt than a meaningful consultation.

A new fund has been launched to support survivors of residential school and their descendants in community initiatives that promote acknowledging and healing from their ongoing trauma.

When the first International First Peoples Festival (IFPF) happened in 1991, with the Siege of Kanehsatake still fresh in the minds of many, there was initial resistance to having an event like this take place in Tiohtià:ke.

During the Siege of Kanehsatake in 1990, Ellen Katsi’tsakwas Gabriel would speak at night with the men on the front lines after wrapping up the day’s negotiations. One of the men, Richard Two-Axe - “Boltpin” - had a saying. You can break one arrow very easily, but if you take a bunch of arrows, you cannot break them.

Community member Owisokon Lahache has been selected by the Global Art League to present her art piece at the Montreal Art Centre and Museum. The Global Art League is an art competition, with an exhibition of selected works beginning on July 19 and finishing on August 2.

This year’s Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR) Skateboard Project art design competition, in its fourth year of existence, may have been smaller in scale than years past, but that doesn’t make the winning works any less visually impressive.

Montreal’s Old Port drew a crowd of over 100 people Saturday for National Indigenous Peoples Day, with a mixture of singing, dancing, drumming, prayer, celebration, and solemnity resounding under sunny skies.