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The first annual Onkwehón:we Project Conference was a success last week, with participants learning about cutting-edge research in the fields of archaeology and archive work, as well as sharing knowledge about their own research into Indigenous history.

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.

A ceremony held in Gatineau this week saw the return of sacred items to their home communities from the Vatican Museums archive, part of an ongoing process that will see a total of 62 items transferred to Indigenous communities across Turtle Island.

One need only view the photographs of the scene on the tarmac of the Montreal airport, snow crowding the frame, to know the significance of the moment as 62 Indigenous artifacts touched down on Turtle Island after 100 years at the Vatican.

A delegation of Indigenous community members and leadership stood shoulder to shoulder on the tarmac of Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport last Saturday, ready to welcome home more than 60 items being repatriated from the Vatican.

The weekend saw the community unite in the studios of K1037 and – niá:wen to the magic of radio – in the kitchens, living rooms, and cars of Kahnawake.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is one of three core members of a research project looking to re-examine the understanding of the history of what the project is calling Ancestral Iroquoia - namely the relationships between the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples.

It’s among the most precious wampum belts out there, but for more than a century since one man sold it – without permission from the community to which it belongs – it has been in colonial hands.

Jessica Loft Cross had long known she’d one day become responsible for the care of a collection of Hatowi masks, just not when.

At the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal, glass cases house precious wampum belts in a new exhibit that may be the biggest of its kind in the world.