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Team Kahnawake, made up of students from Kahnawake Survival School (KSS), Kateri School, Karonhianónhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienstáhkhwa, and Karihwanó:ron Tsi Ionterihwaienstáhkhwa, returned home from the First Nations Education Council (FNEC) Inter-School Games in Quebec City with 45 medals, including banners for 10-12 year-old boys’ floor hockey and 10-12 year-old girls’ volleyball.

One hundred and fifty years ago, the Indian Act was introduced. Today, many are wondering how many more anniversaries will be marked before it’s gone.

At the Siege of Kanehsatake commemoration event in Tiohtià:ke last year, this saying was shared: “You can break one arrow very easily, but if you take a bunch of arrows, you cannot break them.”

It was by chance that Selena Kaniehtiiostha Beauvais was invited to play competitively on a dek hockey team for the second time.

Wáhta season, the time when maple sap flows. It carries powerful cultural significance, and has nourished Kanien’kehá:ka since time immemorial. It heals, it calls for ceremony and thanksgiving.

On February 14, while he was still captain of the Ontario Hockey League’s Erie Otters, the player from Akwesasne suffered a scary injury after he fell into the boards, necessitating a hospital stay and ending his Junior career.

The sounds of chainsaws, smoke machines, and flickering lights are filling James Day’s Haunted Woods, signalling the start of the annual Halloween tradition. But while Day has faced setbacks with a fire destroying part of the setup and rainfall putting a pause on the first nights of thrills, he’s refusing to give up. 

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.

On August 23 and 24, Kahnawake was alive with energy, grit, and community spirit as it hosted the second annual Strong Women and Men Competition, a showcase of physical strength and emotional resilience, that also focused on mental wellness advocacy. 

One of Kahnawake’s own has been named as a semi-finalist in Pow Wow Pitch, an entrepreneurship competition pegged as the “Dragons’ Den” of the Indigenous business world.