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By: Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door The “inquisition” on traditional dances, songs and rituals of our ancestors mainly touched the western province up until the mid 1950s since most eastern First Nations were than more likely abiding to the Indian Act and the Christian values, being in touch with Europeans for a longer period.

Wallace “Bully” Stacey proprietor of Bully’s Truck Stop stands on the Quebec Court of Appeal steps after hearing his lawyer, Timothy Huot, argue on behalf of himself and 10 other gas retailers.

 Frank ‘Putsky’ Rice has been tapping trees on his daughter’s property for the past four years. (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door)

Judge Diane Humetewa with some Indigenous students at McGill’s First Peoples House. (Courtesy U.S. Consulate General, Montreal) The first female Native American judge marked her first trip to Canada last week with a two-day visit to Montreal, making a number of appearances in Kanesatake and throughout the city.

How do we push Kahnawake to the next level, beyond what exists here now? It’s something we wrote about in last week’s EASTERN DOOR, focusing mostly on the economy, but it is also something that is multi-faceted, extremely complicated, and it goes beyond mere dollars and sense.