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In the most famous art museum in the United States hangs a portrait of the country’s most famous historical figure, the man who led the American Revolution and became the country’s first president.

Indigenous designer and entrepreneur Tammy Beauvais has been honoured with the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal, a distinction presented to her by Assembly of First Nations (AFN) national chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak.

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.

King Charles III opened his speech in Ottawa this week, to the House of Commons and the world, with a vapid land acknowledgement.

When community member Brooke Rice was first encouraged to attend the Renew Our Power gathering in Brazil by a friend, she wasn’t sure if she had the appropriate experience to go.

The past few months have seen Ellen Katsi’tsakwas Gabriel and co-author Sean Carleton travel to a number of cities, sharing their book, When the Pine Needles Fall, with readers all over Turtle Island.

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home was unexpected for many across Turtle Island – including Denise Pictou Maloney, who believes that Peltier was complicit in the 1975 murder of her mother, Annie Mae Pictou in South Dakota.

In a ceremony held on the lower field of McGill University last Sunday morning, around 200 people gathered as a great white pine sapling, brought by Kanehsata’kehró:non Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel from the Pines in Kanehsatake, was planted into the ground.

Students from Kahnawake and Kanesatake attending McGill will soon have their tuition paid for by the university, a move made as part of the institution’s 52 Calls to Action made in 2017.

A group of faculty from McGill University have set a commitment to work closely with the organization behind Joyce’s Principle in the hopes of moving the institution closer toward implementing it.