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It’s among the most precious wampum belts out there, but for more than a century since one man sold it – without permission from the community to which it belongs – it has been in colonial hands.

Since she was young, Olympic water polo player Waneek Horn-Miller has looked up to fellow Indigenous athletes and leaders. Amongst them are Alex Nelson and Angela Chalmers, two individuals who have pioneered inclusion in sports and led the way for others, like Horn-Miller, to follow in their footsteps.

Next Wednesday marks the 23rd anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, a tragedy that led to the death of nearly 3,000 people.

A record-breaking $115,000 was raised at the 2024 Tewathohnhi’saktha Business Golf Challenge, this year benefitting the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC). Each year, Tewathohnhi’saktha asks for proposals from potential beneficiaries, which are then deliberated by its board of directors.

Rumours have been circulating for months about the future of Mohawk Online Ltd. (MOL), an online gaming company from Kahnawake that has given millions of dollars to the community since 2015, but it was finally publicly confirmed on K1037 Radio Monday that things are about to get very real.

The sounds of drumming and singing echoed through Museum Alley next to the McCord Stewart Museum last Friday morning for this year’s National Indigenous People’s Day ceremony organized by Land InSights, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Indigenous cultures.

Remains of Kanien’kehá:ka that date back prior to colonization found during construction at St. Joseph’s Oratory will be reburied at another location on the oratory grounds, The Eastern Door has learned, following an agreement struck between the oratory and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).  The remains of the three individuals were found in the spring last year as the oratory was removing an old asphalt road leading up its slopes, said Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle, the archeologist for the MCK who was there as a monitor when the remains were uncovered.  “Most of these ancestral remains that were found are over 1,000 years old,” she said.

An impressive new artifact could soon be added to the permanent collection at the Kanien'kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR)

The community mourned the loss of a swath of mature maple trees this week, with the Multi-Purpose Building project team confirming more trees were removed than had been anticipated by the original plan.

Around 10 years ago, a linguist with experience in Haudenosaunee languages, Karin Michelson, was invited by three Oneida women to assist them in going through the archives of one of the world’s best-known museums.