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Pink Shirt Day is not till later this month, but bullying is the topic on people’s minds this week after a violent incident at the Kahnawake Sports Complex involving young children, who recorded and shared it.

The fourth edition of Kahnawake’s annual Seed Conference is coming to town this month, with a schedule chock-full of speakers in the process of being finalized.

The days might be getting longer, but that’s about the only sign of the cold snap letting up. Fortunately, as Kanehsata’kehró:non look out the window at the snow accumulating on their cars, they can comfort themselves with the knowledge they’ll soon be clearing it off for two weeks of winter fun.

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).

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

Onkwehón:we across Turtle Island donned their ribbon skirts on January 4, in recognition of the third annual National Ribbon Skirt Day.

Another New Moon has passed, meaning the time to stir the ash and leave the old year behind for the new one is here again.

Last New Year’s Eve, as the clock struck midnight, community members young and old joined hands and cheered as part of Kahnawake’s first-ever sobriety powwow.

Well, it’s November, and that can only mean one thing – and no, we’re not talking about trying to get an appointment for your winter tires.

A signing ceremony was hosted at the Kahnawake Peacekeepers’ station last Friday as part of a celebration of a historic probation agreement signed in March between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)