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December 13, 2024Economic reconciliation summit
The Ashukan Institute and the KWE! Meet With Indigenous Peoples Festival are coming together to hold the first Indigenous Connections Summit at the Montreal Convention Centre in March.
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November 15, 2024Food security experts come to Kahnawake
For Kahnawa’kehró:non Brooke Rice - co-founder of the local food sovereignty project Tkà:nios - access to quality, locally grown foods is about more than nutrition.
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November 15, 2024Review: The Invasion of Turtle Island
Being an Indigenous person automatically makes you a story collector and a storyteller. Whether it be through oral storytelling, written storytelling, or visual storytelling, our job as Onkwehón:we is to listen to the stories from our elders and pass them down to the next generation.
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November 1, 2024Damning final report lists obligations
The federal point person for missing children and unmarked graves this week said that Canada must shift from “a culture of amnesty and impunity to a culture of accountability and justice,” with the release of a two-volume final report marking the end of her mandate.
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November 1, 2024Temporary border-crossing measures announced
Interim measures aimed at reuniting Onkwehón:we with US citizenship with their families in Canada do little to change the status quo, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)
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October 18, 2024Council slams federal water bill
A federal bill aimed at imposing drinking water standards in First Nations communities fails to respect those nations’ inherent right to govern their own waters, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)
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October 18, 2024Assembly votes on settlement agreement
After an arduous Special Chiefs Assembly this week, a proposed $47.8 billion final settlement agreement (FSA) on long-term reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services Program was rejected by the membership of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
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September 30, 2024Indigenous fashion show dazzles
Jason Picard-Binet, owner of moccasins brand Bastien Canada, is sick and tired of seeing the cultural appropriation of Indigenous designs in the fashion industry.
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September 16, 2024Autism demystified for first responders
Many peacekeepers, firefighters, and paramedics in Kahnawake will be sporting new badges now to show they’ve undergone autism awareness training.
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July 19, 2024Veterans speak up at Assembly
Veterans’ issues were on the margins of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual general assembly at the Palais de Congrès in Montreal last week.

