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Kahnawake’s youth took the lead teaching culturally safe sex education to guests at the Native Youth Sexual Health Network’s “Sexy Health Carnival.” (Jessica Deer, The Eastern Door)

Cadence Patton trains three times a week with her coach Samantha Harwood at the Centre Sportif Polydium in Chateauguay. (Courtesy Penny Berg Patton)

Judge Diane Humetewa with some Indigenous students at McGill’s First Peoples House. (Courtesy U.S. Consulate General, Montreal) The first female Native American judge marked her first trip to Canada last week with a two-day visit to Montreal, making a number of appearances in Kanesatake and throughout the city.

The Foundation for the Compulsory Study of Genocide in Schools is hoping to pressure the government of Quebec to make mandatory the study of genocide including Residential Schools in the province’s textbooks.

Few titles catch a reader’s eye more than Karen Stote’s new book An Act of Genocide; Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women.

The Plains Cree-Saulteaux rapper Drezus may have took home the most hardware at the 10th annual Indigenous Music Awards last weekend, but Jaaji Okpik made Kahnawake proud with his win for Best Indigenous Language CD.