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The Urban Indigenous Action Group National Summit for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S+) provided a space for advocates, survivors, family members, and government representatives to come together to forge a path forward for change this week in Ottawa, an opportunity that left Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Melanie Morrison hopeful about steps forward in the fight for justice.

A $50,000 donation from the Anglican Church will go towards helping Kahnawake archive its oral history, part of a project that coordinator Gerald Taiaiake Alfred says will ensure future generations of Kahnawa’kehró:non have access to easily forgotten information about the community.

Under a grey November sky, the sound of drums echoed through the streets, flags waved gently in the breeze, footsteps marched, and quiet reflection filled the streets of Kahnawake on Saturday as community members gathered for the annual Remembrance Day parade. 

As the community prepares to mark Remembrance Day, the Royal Canadian Legion Mohawk Branch 219 is leading a full week of activities to honour local veterans. For Legion president Ray Deer, the upcoming week is a time to remember, visit, and celebrate those who served.

Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, means so many things at once. That it has two names is just one window into that reality.

On September 30, Montrealers gathered at the Sir George-Etienne Cartier Monument in Montreal for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. 

Data sovereignty is at the heart of the next phase of Kahnawake’s Oral History Project, with elders’ stories and family life in Kahnawake ready to be archived in a way that above all keeps community knowledge for the community.

During the Siege of Kanehsatake in 1990, Ellen Katsi’tsakwas Gabriel would speak at night with the men on the front lines after wrapping up the day’s negotiations. One of the men, Richard Two-Axe - “Boltpin” - had a saying. You can break one arrow very easily, but if you take a bunch of arrows, you cannot break them.

On Friday morning, Joe Deom was on the greenspace area near the Mercier Bridge, like he is every year on July 11, to show that Kahnawake is still here, and that it still remembers what happened in 1990.

In spring 1990, Wanda Gabriel, then a young mother on the verge of turning 30, began building a home in Kanesatake, having moved back that January to reconnect herself and her children with their roots.