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The patrol of local highways largely used by non-locals takes up a major chunk of the Kahnawake Peacekeepers’ resources. Accidents along Route 207 and Highway 138 happen on a weekly basis, and the work the police force has to dedicate to preventing fatalities isn’t being fairly compensated for by the province, according to many on the Council table.

Now that Wihse Stacey has become interim fire chief of the Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB) after David Scott retired last month, he has taken over many of Scott’s files - including matters of KFB funding from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC).

Those on social assistance will continue to be offered inflation benefits in the new year, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)

The Christmas spirit was in full swing this year, with anonymous Onkwehón:we families in need receiving thousands of dollars from fundraising that included a holiday edition of Chase the Ace.

For the first time, undergraduate students in McGill University’s social work program will be able to learn from not just one but three of the brightest minds in Kahnawake, who have each signed on to be course lecturers for the winter semester at the university.

Quebec signed a historic agreement in Montreal with the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) today, one both parties hope will pave the way for a more constructive relationship moving forward.

Brooklyn Leblanc hunkered down with many other people to stand up for Kanien’kehá:ka sovereignty in what became known as the Oka Crisis.

Last term, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Iohahiio Delisle was in a meeting that he found heartbreaking. Karihwanó:ron, the community’s Mohawk immersion elementary school for more than three decades, was full of mold, teaching the language out of an “old cigarette shack” on the cusp of being condemned.

The good news is 2024 is almost over, and whether it was a pretty good one or a pretty rough one – or somewhere in between – 2025 is definitely exciting to think about, plan, and, most importantly, get done!

After over five years, Joe Jacobs has been reunited with the diabetes wampum belt he created back in 1997. The famed belt and leather bundle it’s carried in has been brought to over 20 First Nations since the late 90s.