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Helen Paavola, chief of the small community of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, flew into her homelands this week, finding nothing left but ashes. Not even the road bridges are left standing.

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).

A draft resolution supporting the renewal of a protocol agreement between the Iroquois Caucus and Assembly of First Nations (AFN) was passed unanimously at the AFN Annual General Assembly last week, affirming the Iroquois Caucus’s role in representing the interests of member communities.

The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) has joined leaders of Indigenous communities in Alberta in defending treaty rights from a burgeoning separatism movement in that province.

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) has turned to the international community for support in combatting Quebec’s language laws, which community leaders worry could inhibit the resurgence of Kanien’kéha.

Enrollment has reached capacity for grades seven and nine at Kahnawake Survival School (KSS), the earliest classes have filled up at the school. While the Kahnawake Education Center (KEC) has acknowledged this means disappointment for some families, small class sizes are part of what has made so many parents want to send their children to school locally, according to KEC education director Falen Iakowennaiéwas Jacobs.

For Jonathan Shetush, chief of the Innu Takuaikan Uashat mak Mani-utenam (ITUM) band council, July 10’s tripartite agreement with the provincial government of Quebec and the federal government marks the beginning of a new chapter, one where they will have the right to self-determine how they will care for their own children.

Listening to Donald Angus talk about his time as part of the cleanup crew at Ground Zero in New York City in the days and weeks following 9/11, it almost feels like it happened yesterday, not almost a quarter of a century ago.

Although summer remains in full swing, it’s never too early to begin thinking about the future. Whether you’re entering your final year of CEGEP, entering grade 12, or thinking of going back to school after taking some time off, it is important that whatever avenue you decide to pursue is the right one for you.

As a single mother raising two young boys to be first language Kanien’kéha speakers, Karihwiióstha Callie Montour found that there were not many options in Kahnawake for advanced speakers like herself to continue her learning.