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Every year, as the snow melts and winter makes way for spring, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Kahnawake Peacekeepers make efforts to encourage safe usage of ATVs as their use grows in warmer days.

Last week’s Indigenous Nurses Day celebration in Kahnawake was truly generational – from 96-year-old Helen Skye, who became a nurse in 1951, to 29-year-old Rebecca Boyer, who graduated from her nurse practitioner program last summer, it was a day to recognize the efforts of Kahnawake’s nurses past and present.

The Ratiwennenhá:wi Kanien’kéha language immersion program participated for the first time in the Tetewatierónnion variety show in Kahnawake, presenting a twist on Harry Potter called Rez Potter, including props like giant status cards.

Police officers installed a checkpoint and pulled over trucks, including at least one dump truck, on Highway 640 near the Oka Park entry on April 15, as part of a large road safety operation targeting heavy vehicles.

The First Nations Education Council (FNEC) marked its 40th anniversary by honouring key figures who helped transform Indigenous education, including longtime educator and advocate Linda Simon.

The Eastern Door’s 30th annual Spring Cleanup is just a week away, held in collaboration with the Waste Management Unit of the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake and the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).

The Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KOR)’s event calendar for April is fully loaded, with activities, classes, and workshops that should appeal to a wide audience of Kahnawa’kehró:non for Cultural Awareness Month.

As winter gives way to spring, members of the Mohawk Trail Longhouse express gratitude in ceremony for the maple trees - the Wáhta – that are so fundamental to Kanien’kehá:ka culture, a source of nourishment and medicine.

After stepping in to cover private school tuition for students with special needs last year, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) will be reimbursed for the tuition costs by the federal government, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) minister Mandy Gull-Masty announced at a meeting in Kahnawake yesterday.

Work has started again near the boundary between Chateauguay and Kahnawake on the project to turn St. Jean Baptiste Boulevard into an “urban boulevard” and realign Industrial and St. Francis Boulevard to form one intersection.