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As the country wrestles with the interim ruling of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal issued Friday - that Canada is committing genocide against Indigenous Peoples – we mark National Indigenous History Month.

Building connections across communities has been the central focus of Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Paul Rice’s work in recent weeks, where he’s been advancing discussions related to gaming for the community.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake’s Sports and Recreation Unit (SRU) has had a lot to celebrate recently.

A barbeque fundraiser for Reviving Kanehsatà:ke Radio (RKR) 101.7 FM raised more than $4,500 for the station and its new building fund.

Two weeks ago, the doors to Kahnawake’s major new cultural arts centre, Kanatahkwèn:ke, swung open. It was two students from Kahnawake Survival School who had come in hopes of getting a tour.

Melissa Frate and her partner Don Beauvais experienced what no family wants to go through this week: the total loss of their family home as a result of a devastating house fire.

For McGill University Indigenous Language Revitalization master’s student Arihwisaks Colin Benedict, who is Kanien’kehá:ka from Akwesasne, last week’s Tsitewatá:ti: Let Us Speak Again language symposium achieved the goal he had set out to achieve - to bring language revitalizers together in one place to share ideas and experiences.

Last week, caretaker council member Serge Otsi Simon and Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) education director Watsenniostha Nelson attended the First Nations Education Council’s (FNEC) annual general meeting in Quebec City, where they discussed ways to fund and strengthen Indigenous education.

Renovations have begun at the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) cabin in Tioweró:ton, known as the Oka Inn, after Council dropped an attempt to apply funding towards a second cabin.

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.