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Sahawisó:ko’ Arquette tehowennanetáhkwen, Translated by Sahawisó:ko’ Arquette “Wa’téktahste’ tsi nitsawénhserons’,” wa’ì:ron’ ne Stacey Pepin né:ne Kanehsata’kehró:non.

“I broke a cycle,” said Kanehsata’kehró:non Stacey Pepin, standing in front of the over 125-year old New Chancellor Day Hall, part of McGill University’s Faculty of Law.

You might think it’s hard to stay humble after winning a $100,000 scholarship, but for Kahnawa’kehró:non Gracie Diabo, her achievements are one piece of a bigger picture of Kanien’kehá:ka excellence.

Courtesy Arts Commons When Thea Thomas picked up the phone for our interview, she was sitting at a sewing machine working on her next project: a two-by-eight woven wall hanging for a show in Red Deer early into the new year.

Courtesy Emma Bainbridge As the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) close out two days in Quebec’s Superior Court this week, a judge has ruled that the archaeological firm Arkéos must stop digging at the Royal Victoria Hospital site so investigations into the possibility of unmarked graves can take place.

Eve Cable Mohawk Council grand chief Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer punched her fist in the air as she stood in front of McGill University’s Roddick Gates in downtown Montreal on September 30.

Marcus Bankuti When Ruth Loft came home from the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in the early 1960s, she felt like she didn’t fit in, like her own community didn’t understand her.

Marcus Bankuti In 2013, medical transport worker Helen Jarvis Montour asked her boss if she could wear an orange shirt to work on September 30.

File photo An email with the subject line, “We won!!!” reached Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Tonya Perron’s inbox while she was in a meeting two weeks ago.

Courtesy Hudson Village Theatre It’s no easy feat to get a room full of settlers to laugh at themselves, but the Hudson Village Theatre’s production of Feather Gardens accomplished that and much more.  Feather Gardens, written by Jimmy Blais, stars a patch of land in the town of Hudson, a non-Indigenous settlement located across the Ottawa River from Kanesatake.