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Na’kuset, the co-founder of Indigenous-led homeless shelter Resilience Montreal, is used to seeing Indigenous people being often left with “the scraps.”

October 4 marked the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the counterpart to Red Dress Day on May 5, which is the National Day of Awareness.

Two fresh faces from Kahnawake have joined the team at the Native Para-Judicial Services of Quebec, ready to lend a helping hand to Indigenous people navigating the provincial court system.

Morgan Harris’s daughter, Cambria Harris, told attendees at a vigil in 2022 that her mother was “happy-go-lucky, she was silly, she was fun, people loved to be around her.” She was a mother of five and a grandmother of one.

It was past bedtime one night when Justine Deer’s six-year-old son Wallace Zachary turned to his mother with a heart-warming request.

Expect more development in the Lot 106 area over the next two years. Work is now underway to get a two-storey 16-plex built in the area.

An emergency homeless shelter has quietly opened in town. Though it’s been available to community members since late December, it’s yet to be occupied by anyone.

Patrick Moses Montour has a leaking roof. He has for years now, even after having it replaced about eight years ago.

We couldn’t jump right into the holidays with cheer and goodwill just yet, as the important issue of housing has popped back into the news.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is rushing to create an emergency shelter before the new year, Council chief Iohahiio Delisle shared, saying there’s been a growing number in town finding themselves without anywhere to stay the night.  As of November, a working group made up of staff from Kahnawake Shakotiia'takehnhas Community Services (KSCS), Council chiefs Jeremiah Johnson and Arnold Boyer, and MCK staff have been meeting on a weekly basis to address what Delisle called a growing problem.  “There’s a homelessness issue in the community, and it's time that we address it and acknowledge it for what it is,” he said.  To his knowledge there’s never been an overnight shelter in Kahnawake.