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In the 1980s, when Big Mac boxes were still chewing a hole in the ozone layer, women of the 207 Longhouse stood up to the trucks treating Kahnawake as a garbage dump, an important moment in the beginnings of what would become the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO).

On the eve of July 11, 1990, Myrna Gabriel remembers celebrating two birthdays with cakes, barbeque, and sitting around the fire telling stories with her friends at the barricades.

Decades ago, on a mission to pick up extra crispy fries, June Delisle drove her wheelchair on the side of the road, avoiding the valleys and cracks in the walkway. “Ha:ke, auntie Junie,” her great-niece Alana Atwin. “You’re going to get bumped - get on the sidewalk!”

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) intends to maximize the community’s stake in the Hertel-New York interconnection line, which began transmitting electricity from Quebec this month to power a million New York City homes.

During the 1960s to 80s, Quebec attempted to pave the dirt roads in Tioweró:ton. Any new asphalt roads would belong to the province and would result in a territorial loss for Kahnawake and Kanesatake up north.

The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) held its annual Indigenous People’s Day concert in Cabot Square over the weekend, in affiliation with POP Montreal.

Na’kuset, the co-founder of Indigenous-led homeless shelter Resilience Montreal, is used to seeing Indigenous people being often left with “the scraps.”

When Kyle Kaientó:ton Williams took a brief break from his studies at Concordia University to focus on music in 2016, he thought he’d be able to dip back in and finish what he started whenever he wished.

In the grade seven science class, students at Ratihén:te High School were studying bug identification charts this year.

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.