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Dozens were welcomed at the Tekontaterièn:tare Multigenerational Center for Women’s Wellness last Saturday for its launch and open house at the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC)’s Tsonkwatentionhátie Farm.

This week was International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day (September 9) and World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), with Kahnawake Shakotiia’takehnhas Community Services (KSCS) offering an informational session outside its main building on Tuesday to underline those two days.

In the early hours of August 19, 2025, at precisely 12:47 a.m., a healthy baby boy was brought into the world under the glow of the moon at the Tekontateriéntare Multigenerational Center for Women’s Wellness at the Tsontkwahtentionhátie farm in Kanesatake.

Launched for the first time in Kahnawake, Sken:nen tsi Aiethiiehiaronhseke is a prenatal program that recently concluded its first eight-week session. From June 1 to July 24, it supported 10 local families through a culturally grounded, community-based approach to birth preparation.

Children and adults alike enjoyed the activities, installations, and treats on offer at this year’s edition of Family Day, organized by the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC).

The regional health survey is a way for community organizations in Kahnawake, and First Nations health and social services commissions outside of town, to get a full snapshot of the health issues faced my community members, helping them to develop future plans to improve health outcomes and monitor ongoing projects.

It might have been 50 years or more since a home birth in Kanesatake, a practice that used to be commonplace in the community, but the Kanesatake Health Center (KHC)

Warisose Gabriel was born at home in Akwesasne in 1943, delivered by the local midwife – her own grandmother, Josephine Tiawentinon Thompson.

Kaniehtisakhe Albany was 35 weeks and five days into her pregnancy when one of her unborn twins decided she was ready to make her entrance into the world.

A damning new report released last week has exposed the ongoing practice of imposed sterilization of First Nations and Inuit women in Quebec.