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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.

The Ratiwennenhá:wi Kanien’kéha language immersion program is celebrating 10 years of official language revitalization efforts. When students return from summer break in September, staff plan to begin developing a 10-year strategy for the future of the program.

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.

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.

A string of wampum beads was returned to the community last week, in collaboration with the outside organization that had it in its possession for almost 50 years, the Bank of Canada Museum in Ottawa.

When Indigenous leaders head to the National Assembly in Quebec City, a satisfying outcome is hardly likely. So last week, when they made the trek to bring their concerns about provincial justice minister Simon Jolin-Barrette’s hare-brained scheme to pass a polarizing (and legally dubious) Quebec constitution in the party’s waning days, it was a predictable exercise in futility.

The recent K1037 radiothon has once again highlighted the power of community and collaboration in Kahnawake. What began as a weekend fundraiser to support the new Kanatahkwèn:ke (where the village is picked up) Cultural Arts Center turned into a record-breaking event, raising over $660,000, well beyond the original target of $200,000.

The American Wing at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) contains tens of thousands of artworks deemed to represent America, sprawling paintings of George Washington crossing the Delaware river, and portraits of presidents past.

A substantial contribution from the federal government is the latest infusion for a planned 10-year, $3 million restoration of the St. Francis Xavier Mission and Fort St. Louis.

This September marked a historic milestone in fashion with the debut of Indigenous New York Fashion Week, held alongside the globally renowned New York Fashion Week (NYFW).