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LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL, THE EASTERN DOOR John Harding has never gotten used to the stink. Every time he neared the G&R Recycling site and the waters that flow by its operations on Kanehsatake land, his nose filled with “the smell of opening a septic tank and sticking your head inside.

Kahnawake is sitting in a difficult position. As the fourth wave and the red zone have been announced, the local Public Health team and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

The former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada, Kanesatake’s Kimberly Murray, has been chosen to lead an investigation at the former Mohawk Institute residential school.

Last week, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer was a special guest and speaker at the 500 years of Indigenous Resistance – 1521 the Fall of Mexico – Tenochtitlan ceremony in Mexico City.

“Philanthropist is the word I would use to describe him.” For Brian Goodleaf, the son of the late Angus John Shakoia’ténhtha Goodleaf, his father was someone he looked up to on a multitude of levels.

COURTESY LAURENCE BRISSON DUBREUIL Kahnawake’s own choreographer and dancer Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo will be making her way to centre stage at Place Des Arts on September 10, opening this year’s Festival Quartiers Dances.

The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation at Kahnawake released a statement on Wednesday refuting public statements made by the mayor of Chateauguay during an interview with K103.7 Monday.

Steve Bonspiel The Eastern Door Ryan Montour was on a path of self-destruction when a lifestyle of drinking, drugging and high-risk behaviour finally caught up to him that one fateful night 10 years ago.  On March 2, 2011, Montour’s life changed forever after he left a local bar under the influence of drugs and alcohol and smashed head-on into a car driven by a man from Mercier.  Today, he’s a newly-elected Mohawk Council of Kahnawake chief, but back then, he was an addict of drugs and alcohol.  Montour was in the middle of heavy partying when he slipped behind the wheel of his white 2008 Dodge Charger, bolstered by a cocktail of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol.  He had been contemplating whether or not he should drive down Route 207 to his home in the village area.

Courtesy KEPO  The Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) started harvesting aquatic plants in the bay this week, as it prepares to begin the dredging process.  The director of KEPO, Lynn Jacobs, said that the goal is to harvest a lot of the aquatic plants that are proliferating through the bay in order to help the water flow.  “The aquatic plants make the passage quite difficult and (the harvesting)

With the official beginning of the Tokyo Olympics Games starting tomorrow, Indigenous athletes worldwide prepare for this unique experience, following a particularly difficult training period.