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A group known as the Pinesi Paddlers landed in Kahnawake ahead of the annual Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-wow last week, after a six-day journey that started in Gatineau.

On the eve of July 11, 1990, Myrna Gabriel remembers celebrating two birthdays with cakes, barbeque, and sitting around the fire telling stories with her friends at the barricades.

Many issues frustrate Indigenous people, but none quite like how our taxation rights - in other words our inherent rights - are constantly flouted by businesses, “adjusted” by successive governments, and just ignored overall.

A lot has changed in the past five years, but then again, a lot hasn’t. On July 1, 2021, many Canada Day events were cancelled, or at least dramatically scaled back, after the Kamloops announcement confronted Canadians with the genocidal reality of the residential school system.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) intends to maximize the community’s stake in the Hertel-New York interconnection line, which began transmitting electricity from Quebec this month to power a million New York City homes.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has sent an open letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, casting Parliament’s push to amend the Indian Act’s registration rules as a violation of Canada’s human rights obligations.

Years spent collecting the environmental thoughts and concerns of Kahnawa’kehró:non have culminated in the now-released first draft of the Kahnawà:ke Environmental Vision.

Members of the Longhouse in Kanesatake met to discuss their support for efforts opposing the Alto high-speed railway project last week, with some attending an anti-Alto protest in Ottawa, in events that follow a Longhouse letter opposing the project in April.

Food is what fuels us, and for community member Brooke Rice, it’s essential that communities work to ensure that our youngest generations are equipped with the resources they need to have access to nourishing meals, so that they can grow into the next generation of leaders.

At the daphne art centre in Tiohtià:ke on Friday, those in the room and watching the live stream heard the judges from the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal read out their verdict: the government of Canada has committed and continues to commit genocide against Indigenous Peoples.