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Dancing is always medicine for those who enter the powwow arena, and that was particularly true at last weekend’s Seminole Powwow in Florida, where the floor was filled with red dresses, as Onkwehón:we from across Turtle Island joined together for a special dance to commemorate Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

This fall, Concordia University is hoping to make its degrees more accessible to Onkwehón:we students, with the addition of new bridging programs that aim to break down barriers to higher education.

A beating drum that followed the Haudenosaunee Nationals everywhere thundered in the stands of the Utica University Nexus Center as England saw a close game at the half slip away into a drubbing.

Following the reception of the New Frontiers of Research Fund Transformation grant of almost $23 million, Concordia University’s Abundant Intelligences research program is still developing as the project continues to grow.

After over five years, Joe Jacobs has been reunited with the diabetes wampum belt he created back in 1997. The famed belt and leather bundle it’s carried in has been brought to over 20 First Nations since the late 90s.

The Tsi Snaihne Recreation Centre in Snye was filled to the brim last weekend, as crowds from near and far packed in for another sold-out edition of the Akwesasne Indigenous Fashion Show.

Kahnawake was abuzz last weekend, with around 800 people coming out from across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to the 207 Longhouse for this year’s Fall Sing.

The community can expect new social housing units after the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced it has secured $1.4 million in government funding earmarked for housing in Indigenous communities.

It was a big day for Kahnawa’kehró:non at the First Nations Executive Education (FNEE) graduation this month, with six community members celebrating the completion of courses that will further their leadership skills.

Social media isn’t always a positive place, but this week it helped a treasured piece of community history find its way back home to Six Nations, thanks to the work of a local business, two thrifters, and a former non-profit president.