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At the daphne art centre in Tiohtià:ke on Friday, those in the room and watching the live stream heard the judges from the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal read out their verdict: the government of Canada has committed and continues to commit genocide against Indigenous Peoples.

For Sherlene Bomberry, a survivor of the longest-running residential school in Canada, this week’s hearings at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in Montreal brought about mixed emotions.

The international Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is in Tiohtià:ke this week, probing a legacy of missing children and unmarked graves associated with residential schools.

As the Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) looks back on the highlights from the end of the year, educational staff are preparing for future projects.

As 2025 draws to a close and we prepare to welcome 2026, The Eastern Door staff took a look back at the last 12 months of news in Kahnawake. And, as we find ourselves saying every year, what a year it has been! From major arts projects for some of Kahnawake’s finest acting talent to community protests about cannabis and traffic, we’ve recapped it all below.

The suspension of the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) elections was easily one of the biggest local stories of the year, but there was plenty more taking place in Kanesatake/Kanehsatake in 2025.

Kanesatake Education Center (KEC) administrators were among the educators who travelled to Winnipeg last week to connect over the challenges and opportunities in Indigenous education today.

“Native extremism” – that’s the guise under which Canada’s spy agency eavesdropped on Indigenous activists from 1988-1999, according to a CBC Indigenous investigation that was published this week, built on reams of documents old enough to have been declassified and released in access-to-information requests, but still heavily redacted.

Despite cuts to Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) being less than expected in the federal government’s proposed 2025 budget, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) grand chief Cody Diabo is still concerned that services community members deserve will continue to be underfunded.

The caterer, Playground Cares, went back to home base not once but twice for more scrambled eggs, potatoes, and breakfast meats to feed all the Kahnawa’kehró:non and others who assembled at the Golden Age Club on Tuesday to honour residential school survivors and the children who never came home.