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Dawn Marquis-Deere has officially taken over as the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK)’s executive director, having held the position on an interim basis since September of last year.

Decades ago, on a mission to pick up extra crispy fries, June Delisle drove her wheelchair on the side of the road, avoiding the valleys and cracks in the walkway. “Ha:ke, auntie Junie,” her great-niece Alana Atwin. “You’re going to get bumped - get on the sidewalk!”

The Kateri Memorial Foundation (KMF) announced this week that its 12th Annual Golf Tournament at the Kanawaki Golf Club in early June raised $183,000 for the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC), the most ever.

Huddles of umbrellas bobbed to upbeat tunes at Kahnawake’s first-ever Kidney Walk, as Kahnawa’kehró:non refused to let the rain deter them from taking action against kidney disease.

After a stretch of lacklustre weather, Monday was the perfect day to hit the links - just in time for the 12th edition of the Kateri Memorial Foundation (KMF)’s Annual Charity Golf Tournament.

A new course offered by the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC), in partnership with the Kanien’keháka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center, (KOR) aims to equip youth in the community with babysitting skills - while also fostering their knowledge of Kanienʼkéha.

The organizers of last year’s Chateauguay Kidney Walk might have chosen a resident of that city to be the face of their event, but instead they looked to Kahnawake, where Angus “Nias” Bordeau has become a leading advocate for locals suffering from kidney disease.

There are two spots opening up on the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) Board of Directors, with a call for nominations going out this week.

With elders being a key demographic of future users of the Kanatahkwèn:ke Cultural and Arts Centre, the organization’s Building Committee has known that accessibility needs to be top of mind.

Last week’s Indigenous Nurses Day celebration in Kahnawake was truly generational – from 96-year-old Helen Skye, who became a nurse in 1951, to 29-year-old Rebecca Boyer, who graduated from her nurse practitioner program last summer, it was a day to recognize the efforts of Kahnawake’s nurses past and present.