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Yesterday afternoon at approximately 2pm, The Kahnawà:ke Peacekeepers received a call concerning a suspicious person that had entered the grounds of the Kahnawà:ke Survival School. The call that came in identified that a non-local male had approached students asking them some questions then leaving the school grounds, proceeding to a store across the street. The […]

The Awards are piling up for a Kahnawà:ke filmmaker. Courtney Montour is the writer and director of Mary Two-Axe Early: I Am Indian Again. It’s a documentary on the work of the Kahnawa’kehró:non to eliminate sex based discrimination in the Indian Act in the 1970’s and 80’s. The doc won the Best Documentary Short award […]

Approximately 40-50 community members turned out last night at the Moose Lodge to speak with elected members of the Mohawk Council of Kahnàwake on the Father Lajoie issue. Tonya Perron was one of the elected officials taking part. She says there was a variety of opinions and thoughts expressed during the dialogue with the council. […]

An historic meeting held at Rideau Hall in Ottawa yesterday as four Onkwehon:we women leaders gathered at the Governor General’s residence. Governor General Mary Simon welcomed, Mandy Gull Masty, the Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, Roseanne Archibald, the Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, and Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer, the Grand Chief […]

An update to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Inpatient Care Services has been released by The Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) where, as of Monday, November 8th, the IPC Unit 2 (second floor) has reopened to visitors. There had been an outbreak at the In-patient Care (IPC) Services department, and even with the visitors returning to […]

The Kahnawà:ke Economic Summit that was held last week virtually, has been deemed a big success by organizers at Tewa. Kimberly Cross-Zacharie is the event coordinator: “The summit was fantastic, the results that came out of it were beyond what was expected, I think what everybody expected, we had so much feedback from businesses. We […]

A vandal struck overnight on the grounds of Karonhianonhnha School in Kahnawà:ke. Iakoiahwahnehhass Fallen Jacobs is the school’s interim Principal: “Overnight, there was some damage done to our property. We found ATV tracks in our grass and in our nursery/kindergarten playground area as well as we had some vandalism done to our gazebo, our screened-in […]

The Mayor elect of Chateauguay says that he’s looking forward to building on an improving relationship between his community and Kahnawake. Eric Allard won Sunday’s Mayoralty and will be sworn into office this Sunday, November 14th. “It’s extremely important that we keep a good relationship with our neighbours, all our neighbours actually. We started to […]

The United States land border from Canada reopened at midnight this morning (Monday) and already the delays are incredibly long. As of 9 am the wait to cross into New York state via the Lacolle – Champlain, NY crossing to Highway 87 is three hours long. Zander McComber of Kahnawake is an Ironworker with Local […]

The Kahnawake Fire Brigade (KFB) says they don’t have any concern over being able to continue running both of the ambulances in the community 24 hours a day, this after several Paramedics agreed to lend a hand in Unit 2 of the Kateri Memorial Hospital Centre (KMHC) which has been hit by a COVID-19 outbreak. […]