News

Tick season is upon us and Professor Jade Savage, Biological Sciences at Bishop’s University was the second half guest today on Tetewatharen, the Partyline Talkshow on K1037, with host Peggy Mayo-Standup. Savage says that most of us did not grow-up knowing about ticks or identifying them, including the one associated with Lyme disease: “The black-legged […]

In a late afternoon development, Police have recovered two more bodies in Akwesasne, an infant and a woman, bringing the confirmed death toll to eight, pulled from the St. Lawrence River near the Ontario-Quebec border. One person is still missing. Six bodies were recovered from the St. Lawrence River in Snye in Akwesasne, yesterday afternoon. […]

The Vatican formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today. Kenneth Deer is with the Haudenosaunee External Relations Committee. He says this good news is tempered: “We’re not going to give it up, […]

Earth month sounds more interesting than Earth Day. Iotsetehawi Reed from The Waste Management Department in Kahnawake and Julie Delisle from KEPO were on Tetewatharen, the partyline talkshow today on K1037, talking about The Earth Month Clean-up throughout April. This month-long clean-up event is in conjunction with the Call to Action for Earth Month and […]

Big changes on the horizon at the MCK. Political Press Attaché Joe Delaronde is retiring. Delaronde began his stellar career at the MCK in 2002 as a member of the Communications Team where he played a key role in the day-to-day communications and sharing of important information to the community, serving later on for the […]

Heather Jacobs-Whyte  is getting set to call it a career and The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK) and Council of Chiefs are both congratulating Jacobs-Whyte, today, for her hard work and dedication as she approaches her retirement date. Heather Jacobs-Whyte began her career at the MCK in 2004 after a long and successful career in […]

The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake held a press conference this afternoon where they released the annual budget. The 2pm press event saw the presentation of the MCK 2023-2024 fiscal year operating budget of $67.3 million, approved by consensus at a recent MCK council meeting. The budget features highlight’s such as: developments in Housing (with important, […]

There was an hold and secure protocol at Kahnawake Survival School, a procedure that is put into action to ensure the safety of students and staff in the event of a possible threat. Students and staff continue their regular activities inside of the building during the protocol and no person was allowed in or out […]

A scary incident in Kahnawake along Highway 138 Tuesday afternoon. A 31-year-old non-local woman was trying to forge a lane between the cars on the 138 westbound near the 2nd set of lights and damaged several of them as she weaved through traffic. According to the Kahnawake Peacekeepers the incident occurred around 4 pm. Once […]