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The 2025 edition of the Kahnawake Youth Center (KYC)’s Winter Carnival gets underway Monday, kicking off two weeks full of indoor and outdoor activities for the whole family.

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) was encouraging the community to participate in Bell Let’s Talk Day again this year, January 22, sharing a post on social media with a link to Bell’s donation page and instructions on how to contribute to mental health initiatives put forward by the company.

Every Peacekeeper in the territory will soon be equipped with body cameras, following a decision made by the police force’s board just before the holidays.  It’s not just cameras that were approved for purchase, but an entire package of new gear aimed at modernizing the way the Kahnawake Peacekeepers police the territory, chief Dwayne Zacharie said.

For Andrea Kaia'tanóron Jacobs, the Circle of Security parenting program that she underwent in 2018 was life changing. “I truly believe that every single expecting parent should be required to take this course,” she said.

As part of ongoing efforts to bring back more information and resources from awareness campaigns and conferences, Connecting Horizons staff this week headed out to New Orleans for the Association for Behaviour Analysis International (ABAI)

Following community workshops and governance meetings on a new law-making process proposed by the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK), it is expected to be tabled at the next Council meeting, likely next week if not sooner, according to MCK chief Brant Etienne.

A beating drum that followed the Haudenosaunee Nationals everywhere thundered in the stands of the Utica University Nexus Center as England saw a close game at the half slip away into a drubbing.

It’s just after 11 a.m. at Diabo’s restaurant, and the rush has already begun.  The chip stand on Route 207 just off Highway 30 has never struggled to attract clients, especially non-locals, but it’s been exceptionally hectic as of late.

Ray Deer won’t be retiring just yet. The president of the Royal Canadian Legion Mohawk Branch 219 is now on his eighth consecutive term, following an election at the hall earlier this month.  “I'm hoping one of our younger veterans will be ready to step in, then I would be ready to step down,” said Deer, who ran unopposed.