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  • May 23, 2024

    Dawson to cut popular Indigenous course

    It was a full house at Dawson College last Friday as Indigenous students with the school’s Journeys program gathered to host a vernissage showcasing their art.

  • March 28, 2024

    Uproar mounts over Northvolt 

    Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Ross Montour was in Montreal this week alongside environmental groups calling on Quebec to submit the Northvolt mega-lithium battery plant to an environmental assessment process.

  • February 20, 2024

    Supreme court affirms child welfare law

    Indigenous families, community members, and advocacy groups convened at a downtown Ottawa hotel last Friday, singing, dancing, drumming, and cheering.

  • December 8, 2023

    Sacred masks return home

    Jessica Loft Cross had long known she’d one day become responsible for the care of a collection of Hatowi masks, just not when.

  • November 2, 2023

    Historic child welfare settlement approved

    Kiona Akohseràke Deer was moved between different group homes and foster care units at least 20 times before she even turned 18.

  • September 8, 2023

    Will First Nations' input fit the bill?

    The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) agreed that a decision recognizing the existence of systemic discrimination raises vital concerns.

  • June 8, 2023

    Kahnawake says no to Quebec

    A no man’s land stood between two rooms of the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Montreal last Friday: on one side, Quebec held a public dialogue session surrounding the province’s French language laws in the context of Indigenous rights, and on the other, the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL)

  • May 3, 2023

    Legal action taken against Bill 96

    Two of the largest Indigenous lobby groups in the province have joined forces to launch a legal challenge against Bill 96, now known as Law 14, citing the ancestral rights of First Nations in education.

  • April 13, 2023

    Vatican relents on papal bulls

    In 2016, Kenneth Deer travelled to the Vatican alongside a delegation of other Indigenous leaders to demand that pope Francis revoke three papal bulls – declarations made by popes – that provided the legal basis and religious authority for centuries of ongoing colonial genocide.

  • March 1, 2023

    Minister talks gun bill with Council

    The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake address concerns about the government's gun control legislation with Canada's minister of public safety, Marco Mendicino.