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With the National Lacrosse League (NLL)’s new collective bargaining agreement finally signed on October 20, players have begun to sign free agent deals this week, including two names familiar to Kahnawake lacrosse fans.

No criminal charges will be laid after local schools were closed Tuesday in response to troubling voicemail messages left at Rotiwennakéhte Elementary School and the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK).

The caterer, Playground Cares, went back to home base not once but twice for more scrambled eggs, potatoes, and breakfast meats to feed all the Kahnawa’kehró:non and others who assembled at the Golden Age Club on Tuesday to honour residential school survivors and the children who never came home.

The fire burned low in the centre of the grounds, surrounded by canvas tents, folding chairs, and the steady hum of a drum. Just beyond, someone winced and smiled as ink met skin, not in a studio, but on the land.

Lacrosse is a game of community, and that is exactly what the Kahnawa’kehró:non who played in this year’s edition of the LAXNAI tournament in Utica, New York, felt over the weekend.

The annual Akwesasne Pow Wow was back with vibrancy last weekend, drawing in hundreds of attendees to Lamoureux Park in Cornwall, Ontario, to celebrate Indigenous culture through traditional dance, music, food, and art.

Fresh off their celebratory parade and party in town on Saturday to celebrate their Founders Cup win, Kahnawake Junior B Hunters players Kaymen Diabo and Hawi Francis learned that their summer of lacrosse success was not quite over.

Fourteen-year-old Kahnawa’kehró:non Athennon:nia Meunier was one to watch at the First Nations Cup last weekend, proving himself despite being the youngest player on the roster.

Everyone is back home, the streams and watch parties are over, the trophy is in town being photographed, drunk out of, and even used as a putter.

The Hunters’ Founder’s Cup win is the biggest cherry on top that any Kahnawake sports fan could ask for.