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A string of wampum beads was returned to the community last week, in collaboration with the outside organization that had it in its possession for almost 50 years, the Bank of Canada Museum in Ottawa.

Katsitsahente Cross-Delisle is used to digging at archeological sites – and she’s also used to digging out space for herself as an Indigenous woman in the archeology field.

The Iroquois Caucus will support Kanesatake and other communities in their efforts to crack down on crime in their respective territories, said Serge Simon, caretaker council member of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK).

As we should all know by now, weather does not equal climate, and it’s important to remember that the frigid winter we’ve been skating, snowshoeing, delighting in, and suffering through this year (this milder week notwithstanding) does nothing to diminish the existential threat of the human-driven climate crisis.

Crossing the Mercier Bridge was no easy feat in September 1990, as the Siege of Kanehsatake wore on, when Kahnawa’kehró:non Mike Bush drove out of the community to pick up civil rights legend Jesse Jackson from the Dorval Airport.

Indigenous, federal, and provincial leaders came together last week for a meeting to discuss the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People (MMIWG2S+), discussing strategies to help address the National Action Plan laid out in 2021.

When Indigenous leaders head to the National Assembly in Quebec City, a satisfying outcome is hardly likely. So last week, when they made the trek to bring their concerns about provincial justice minister Simon Jolin-Barrette’s hare-brained scheme to pass a polarizing (and legally dubious) Quebec constitution in the party’s waning days, it was a predictable exercise in futility.

The caretaker council of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) is considering how much they can intervene in the years-old, ongoing court cases involving Pines land, while a judge has decided to defer a case because of Kanesatake’s governance status.

With the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) gearing up for an intergovernmental meeting on the Terrapure file following a visit from the mayor of Ste. Catherine, MCK chiefs were alarmed to learn of a new spill at the beleaguered facility.

The city of Ste. Catherine, which is facing dozens of charges under the Fisheries Act for allegedly allowing Terrapure to dump toxic water into the Seaway, is finally engaging with Kahnawake after a series of face-palm-inducing communications failures.