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Helen Paavola, chief of the small community of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, flew into her homelands this week, finding nothing left but ashes. Not even the road bridges are left standing.

In the 1980s, when Big Mac boxes were still chewing a hole in the ozone layer, women of the 207 Longhouse stood up to the trucks treating Kahnawake as a garbage dump, an important moment in the beginnings of what would become the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).

A draft resolution supporting the renewal of a protocol agreement between the Iroquois Caucus and Assembly of First Nations (AFN) was passed unanimously at the AFN Annual General Assembly last week, affirming the Iroquois Caucus’s role in representing the interests of member communities.

The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) has joined leaders of Indigenous communities in Alberta in defending treaty rights from a burgeoning separatism movement in that province.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has turned to the international community for support in combatting Quebec’s language laws, which community leaders worry could inhibit the resurgence of Kanien’kéha.

Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) caretaker council member Brant Etienne attended the annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) last week, but some Kanehsata’kehró:non have criticized his presence and participation at the meeting.

Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo reiterated to Quebec premier Christine Fréchette that Kahnawake must be consulted in future planning of the Route 132 revamp project, which will see the redevelopment of a five-kilometre section of the highway between Kahnawake and neighbouring areas.

On the eve of July 11, 1990, Myrna Gabriel remembers celebrating two birthdays with cakes, barbeque, and sitting around the fire telling stories with her friends at the barricades.

Many issues frustrate Indigenous people, but none quite like how our taxation rights - in other words our inherent rights - are constantly flouted by businesses, “adjusted” by successive governments, and just ignored overall.

At the end of June, Heidi Diabo was trying to purchase a door at the CANAC hardware store in Beauharnois, when she was left rattled by an interaction with an employee she felt was the result of her being visibly Indigenous.