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The world of Native fashion is exploding lately, with more and more Onkwehón:we designers sharing their works on catwalks around the world. The latest venue for Indigenous fashionistas was in New Mexico, with some of Kahnawake’s own talent heading to Santa Fe for the first edition of Santa Fe’s Native Fashion Week.

Lindsay Katitsakatste Delaronde has become the first artist-in-residency for the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR) with her PhD thesis “Reconstellation of the Village.”   

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo said he’s concerned about a plan to build two residential towers in Chateauguay along Industrial Boulevard, speaking with the mayor of the city Éric Allard last week to denounce the project. 

Despite what your eyes – and your thermometer – were telling you this week, spring has arrived, and with it comes sugaring season.

Dawson College’s Indigenous Peoples’ Week, which took place this week, has been a yearly staple of the Montreal CEGEP’s event calendar, thanks to the hard work from the First Peoples’ Center.

Learning the language full time is a big commitment, but Karihohetstha Cupples knows that already: her mother, Otsitsaónwe Gaspe, is in her final year of the Ratiwennenhá:wi Kanien’kéha immersion program at the Tsi Ronterihwanónhnha ne Kanien’kéha Language and Cultural Center.

A new interactive, online map of the Montreal metro system was launched this past weekend, which aims to “pay tribute to the women who have played a vital role in the making of Montreal and its social, cultural, and economic prosperity,” according to the project’s website.

Despite facing continued setbacks in court, the Mohawk Mothers have been successful in continuing to rally support from activist communities.

Quebec Native Women (QNW) and the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) are teaming up to create a new province-wide map that’ll compile the stories of those affected by the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people.  A two-day long event will be hosted at the Golden Age Club in town next week to encourage families in Kahnawake to participate in particular.

It wasn’t the Gathering Place’s official grand opening, but the art show that took place there over the weekend was a fitting start for a building envisioned as a hub for Kanien’kehá:ka cultural values.