2025年1月24日 · The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) is drafting a letter it hopes will land on the desk of the Oval Office. Addressed to newly installed US president Donald Trump, the letter will be given to the US consul general in Montreal, Robert Sanders, who will hopefully get it in influential hands. The idea is to outline that Kahnawake Mohawks are distinct from Canada and that Kahnawake’s rights ...

Courtesy Marc Miller, Ian Lafrenière The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) had back-to-back meetings with provincial and federal representatives last Friday to discuss various unresolved...

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4 天之前 · If you’re having beaver problems, Kenneth Canadian is the man to call. He isn’t just a technician for the Kahnawake Environment Protection Office (KEPO) – he’s also their lead on beaver management. “The last couple of years we’ve been getting calls from community members about properties and roads being flooded, and they’ve been looking for somebody to do something, so I just ...

4 天之前 · When Rachel Cree went to check her mail and found a flyer advising community members of a new media program in town, it struck a chord with her. Cree had first considered going into journalism when she wrote a piece about the July 11 walks after 1990 – “Why We Walk.” It ran in a small newspaper circulating at the alternative school, and it caught the eye of an employee at the Kanesatake ...

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the...

2025年1月10日 · Krissy Goodleaf will be remembered for many things: her athletic spirit, her love of the future generations of Kahnawa’kehró:non that she helped raise as a teacher, and her pure adoration of her family to name just a few. For many of her loved ones, it’s her smile and the memory of her laugh tha

2025年1月7日 · Transparency was a four-letter word for the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake in 2025, and it wasn’t because they were good at being transparent. And let’s be clear: every politician has things they keep close to their chest, but the MCK really outdid itself this past year. With so many important ...

No stranger to awards, Mohawk Girls creator Tracey Deer’s successful transition from documentary to comedy series is complete after Deer was nominated in the directing category in the upcoming CSAs.

2024年10月25日 · A proposed $47.8 billion settlement agreement for a 10-year reform of First Nations child and family services in the country was shot down last week, after 267 chiefs and proxies voted against it at a special chiefs assembly hosted by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). The final agreement offered by Canada was rejected in a vote in Calgary on Thursday, October 17, which saw 147 voting in ...