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Several Indigenous dignitaries were in attendance at a city council meeting on Monday evening to witness Montreal endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  (Courtesy Jules Chamberland-Lajoie)

Co-directors Elaine Kicknosway, Colleen Cardinal and Duane Morrisseau Beck of the National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network. (Courtesy Colleen Cardinal)

Ambitious may be an understatement for the hotel, water park and casino proposed by local entrepreneur Lee Thompson. (Courtesy Lee Thompson)

Mohawk Council political attache Joe Delaronde headed last week's Community Decision-Making Meeting that discussed taking membership privileges away from those not conforming with the Kahnawake Membership Law.

This morning the community will gather to honour residential school survivors and remember the ones who never came home. Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started a few years ago in BC and based on a story from residential school survivor Phyllis Jack-Webstad, is as important a day as any other.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake membership portfolio chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer was among the resource team on hand for Tuesday evening’s hearing on the Kahnawake Membership Law.

Eastern Door journalists Daniel J. Rowe and Jessica Deer took home second place for their investigative reporting on membership issues.

Director of Justice Services Kevin Fleischer, membership registrar Rose-Ann Morris and portfolio chief Arlene Jacobs were among the resource staff on hand at Tuesday’s Community Decision-Making Process hearing for the Kahnawake Membership Law.

Like fingerprints, no two family trees are the same, and all require digging. With modern software and available archive material, it has become easier and easier to trace your family back centuries through all the complicated roots.

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.