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With huge smiles and an abundance of medals around their necks, Kahnawake’s athletes returned from the 2023 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG)

Karihwakatste Deer, coordinator at the Iakwahwatsiratátie Language Nest, was having a quiet morning until she received a call from Tammy Whitebean informing her that she would be stopping by.

Before Jayla White got on the bus to Halifax to compete in the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG), her mother jokingly told her to bring home some medals.

Kaniehtiio Horn is done waiting to play a lead role. “I figured it was time I took matters into my own hands,” said Horn.

“It’s crazy, it’s hot, my feet hurt, but it’s been amazing,” said Megan Day, who this year had a booth for her business Ally & Megan Native Creations, which she owns with her mother, Allison McGregor.

Tahatie Montour crafted a kustowa entirely made out of hawk feathers for his son, Tahoe Montour, who danced at the Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-Wow last weekend.

It had been drizzling for almost all of last Saturday, the day of Kahanwake’s first-ever Pride parade. As the event’s start time grew nearer, nobody knew if the weather would dampen the day, or if there’d be a big turnout, or if there’d be anyone in the streets to support it.

The communique for Monday’s community meeting gave a start time of 6 p.m., but a Facebook post explained that the first presentation had been rescheduled for half an hour later.

Hundreds of Kahnawa’kehró:non gathered on the grounds of the Kahnawake Sports Complex this week for a community picnic to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day.