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When the buzzer rang at the Howard Darwin arena in Nepean last Sunday, it was hard to tell who was more excited – the players on the floor, or the fans in the stands who had travelled from Kahnawake, releasing confetti cannons and blasting air horns as they cheered.

What does a real Kahnawake ironworker think of Empire the Musical? “Personally, I think it’s fantastic,” said Chester Deer.

Many young athletes might be nervous to attend their first provincial championships – they’ve got a lot to prove, and there’s no way of knowing whether or not a team will have chemistry until they play together.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has a new grand chief after a decisive win for Cody Diabo, who garnered nearly twice as many votes as incumbent Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, who came last in the three-way race.

They say your sense of smell is the one linked closest to your memory. Sometimes the savoury smell of a pot of soup might take you back to Sunday nights at tóta’s, the scent of fresh-cut grass can remind you of a hot summer day, or a whiff of fried chicken was a telling sign that your father was home for the weekend from ironworking.

Spurred by a recent wave of external media coverage of dumping in the community, a group of Oka residents and affiliated groups have vowed to support Kanehsata’kehró:non with a blockade to stop dump trucks if necessary.

Warmups at the driving range were going well for Josh Mayo at the second annual Golf Quebec Indigenous Championship on Tuesday. But then he went to the putting green.

“This is not a competition for the weak,” announced Beatrice Deer from the stage at this year’s National Indigenous Peoples Day concert in Tiohtià:ke’s Cabot Square.

A 13-episode documentary series, “Warrior Up,” is airing on APTN, with the next episode featuring a familiar face. The program highlights Indigenous youth across North America who inspire and bring about changes and innovations across the world and in their communities, including one of Kahnawake’s own youth, Rotshennón:ni Two-Axe.

About a year after a media campaign that turned the country’s attention to the government’s failures to act on G&R Recycling and a climate of lawlessness and fear in the community, a group of anonymous Kanehsata’kehró:non have released a new open letter to highlight the continued urgency of their cause.