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As the sun set on another successful powwow weekend in Kahnawake, visitors from near and far left the community full of frybread, strawberry juice, and positive energy.

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced the daphne art gallery’s beading circle to move online, no one could have guessed it would have led to two international exhibitions and a new network of relationships between Indigenous artists working in Canada and New Zealand.

Seventeen-year-old Lake Delisle hopes that visitors at the Rising Voices exhibit in Montreal’s Old Port will feel some of the medicine she stitched into her beaded canvas, which will proudly be on display at the Sacred Fire Productions Cultural Space for the next two months.

Local sports aficionado Selena Kaniehtiiostha Beauvais joined the Boisbriand Bulls for a Quebec Senior C League season game, becoming the first Indigenous woman and second women to play in the league’s season games in the province.

Oka unveiled an open-air Human Nature Art exhibit featuring three Kanehsata’kehró:non artists, in an event that also served as part of Oka’s campaign to build a bridge between the two neighbouring communities.

The Kanehsatake Warriors hosted their third annual box lacrosse Jamboree tournament this past weekend, with two Warriors teams - the U11 and U13 - advancing to the finals.

June 21 was a momentous day in Montreal, marking no less than three separate occasions: National Indigenous People’s Day, the summer solstice, and the 325th anniversary of the signing of the Great Peace of Montreal.

When lacrosse coach Al Jones received the invitation from longtime friend Jeffrey Culkin to have a Kahnawake team play an exhibition game as part of the revival of Junior lacrosse in Vermont, he didn’t hesitate to accept the offer.

The grand facade of the Conseil des arts de Montreal (CAM) building on Sherbrooke Street has been adorned with colour this week, as part of a new art piece by Kahnawake’s own Skawennati.

“Stop drinking, Wab.” These words were uttered in the chamber of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly to Wab Kinew, who is the only First Nations premier in the history of the country.