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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) is drafting a letter it hopes will land on the desk of the Oval Office.

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.

The first community meeting of the year is coming up on Wednesday. It’ll be hosted at the Golden Age Club and is expected to start at 6 p.m.  Top of the agenda will be a discussion about the memorandum of understanding signed last month between Quebec and the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK).

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.

A legal case brought forward by a man from Fort William First Nation, on behalf of his children with special educational needs, has resulted in deeper discussion of the possibility of Jordan’s Principle being used for legal fees related to First Nations children’s access to essential services.

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.

A lawyer for the landowner named in the lawsuit launched by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) over the fuel spill in Chateauguay last year said their client isn’t at fault, since there’s no proof diesel from the spill traversed into Kahnawake’s territory.

Jeremiah Johnson has never been afraid to pick through garbage for the good of his town, not when he was a private community member, and not now as a Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

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)