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Backstage at the McCord Stewart Museum, it’s quiet but not with stillness. A model adjusts her footing. A hairstylist perfects a braid. Someone laughs over a smudged lipstick that’s carefully reapplied with the same focus as beadwork.

When the team at the daphne, an Indigenous-run art centre in Montreal, found out that the theme of the 2025 MOMENTA Contemporary Art Biennial was In Praise of the Missing Image, they knew they had to call Martin Akwiranoron Loft.

The first edition of the Montreal Street Photography Festival (MSPF) is set to celebrate the artform in a city where it is heavily practiced, but not necessarily heavily showcased, according to the festival’s founder.

Montreal-based tour guide Donovan King is done waiting for the government to address his concerns that laws regulating tour guiding in the city impose undue barriers on Indigenous people.

Some of the biggest names in the Kahnawake arts scene assembled alongside up-and-comers over the weekend to exchange tips and ideas at the first annual Kahnawake Artists’ Summit.

Martin Akwiranoron Loft did a lot of walking over the pandemic, especially in Montreal, taking photos along the way each time. It brought him back to his 20s, when much of his work consisted of street photography. He began sharing black-and-white portraits of the people he’d encounter on Instagram, creating a page that’s since led to him being featured in an active exhibit at the McCord Stewart Museum.

For Martin Akwiranoron Loft, the now increasing presence in shows and galleries of Indigenous artists - himself included - has been a long time coming.

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.

The sounds of drumming and singing echoed through Museum Alley next to the McCord Stewart Museum last Friday morning for this year’s National Indigenous People’s Day ceremony organized by Land InSights, an organization dedicated to the promotion of Indigenous cultures.

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