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Penelakut Tribe announce 160 graves found at former residential school
By Kaniehtonkie. The Penelakut Tribe announced on July 8th that more than 160 unmarked graves and undocumented graves were found at site of former res...
Community Rising: We Rise for Every Child Taken and For Every Parent Left Behind
By Kaniehtonkie. The day began in the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and ended on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. On the first day of July 2021, estimates of...
How Many Indigenous Children Will Be Recovered?
By Kaniehtonkie On June 24th, Cowessess First Nation announced the nation had located a suspected 751 unmarked grave sites on the Marieval property. Some of those buried may have been adults,...
Delta, Kappa, Alpha and Gamma COVID Variants Making Headlines and Worry Lines for Experts
By Kaniehtonkie. A dangerous variant of the coronavirus is spreading so quickly in the United States that it’s likely the mutant strain will become predominant in the nation within weeks, according t...
Violence Against Women Across the World
By Kaniehtonkie At least one in three women have experienced either physical or sexual violence. Almost half of all murdered women are killed by intimate partners or family members. Women and girls...
Bishops apologize, Archbishop of Toronto and the Pope do not
By Kaniehtonkie. With the recent news of 215 children's remains being found at a former residential school in B.C. bishops across Canada have offered...
NYS to lift mask mandate for people fully vaccinated against COVID
By Kaniehtonkie New York State lifted mask and social distance restrictions on Wednesday, May 19. People in NYS, following CDC guidelines, who are fully vaccinated will no longer need to wear a mask...
Instagram & Facebook Posts Removed on Day to Bring Awareness to MMIWG2S
By Kaniehtonkie. Wednesday, May 5th was Red Dress Day in Canada and National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in the United...
Seven Dancers Coalition' MMIW Life Matters Virtual & Drive Through Event
By Kaniehtonkie. Seven Dancers Coalition held a full day of events – suited to your personal safety – to bring awareness to Missing and Murdered Ind...
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Announce 2021 Official Candidates List
By Kaniehtonkie The SRMT Tribe Election and Referendum Ordinance Board has certified and announced their official list of candidates. The SRMT held their Tribal Caucus on Saturday, May 1, 2021. The...
Akwesasne Women Participate in National Day of Awareness MMIW Virtual Run
By Kaniehtonkie Over thirty women in Akwesasne participated in the Missing Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) Virtual event – a race at your own pace a...
Former senator and political commentator sparks outrage
By Kaniehtonkie A former US senator and CNN political commentator has sparked outrage among Native Americans prompting calls for his dismissal. Rick Santorum told a group of students at a right wing...
Derek Chauvin Verdict and Native Americans
By Kaniehtonkie. The trial of Derek Chauvin captured the attention of world. On May 26, 2020, Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes and captured by then s...
Tragic North Country suicides linked to alleged online threats, harassment and extortion
By Kaniehtonkie Recently two North Country youths have taken their lives in what appears to be from ongoing online harassment. Shylynn Dixon of Lisbon committed suicide on March 3 after suffering...
Cicadas return as Brood X and other facts about cicadas
By Kaniehtonkie This May, billions of cicadas are expected to emerge from the ground. These are "periodical cicadas", part of a cohort who lay their...
Ok, now that you've got that COVID vaccine - what can you do safely?
By Kaniehtonkie About a year into the global pandemic, as the worldwide death toll exceeds a dizzying 2.3 million and nearly half a million in the United States alone - hope has arrived in the form of...
Saskatchewan woman found frozen to death was released from correctional center 3 days prior
By Kaniethonkie A young mother of six was released from a Saskatchewan women’s prison on January 20th only to be found frozen in a residential area of Saskatoon. The death of Kimberly Squirrel, 3...
Two arrested in convoy to Florida
By Kaniehtonkie Court documents allege more than 270 kilograms of Canadian-grown marijuana hidden in the floorboards of the three trailers headed for...
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe February Monthly Meeting
By Kaniehtonkie The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe held their monthly meeting virtually, which meant for a long, time consuming time frame. Even without any major technical glitches, the meeting presented i...
Identity problems - the pretendian
By Kaniehtonkie’ ‘Pretendian’, a label for a person who dishonestly claims to be of Native American, First Nation, Indigenous ancestry. Or were they deceiving and intentional? In the recent wake...
Two rich white people…
By Kaniehtonkie Two rich, white people charted a private plane and flew to a remote area of the Yukon to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Breaking all COVID-19 travel protocols in their travels, they...
Local artists beaded face mask gains national attention
By Kaniehtonkie Akwesasronon artists, Tania Clute is part of a growing trend to illuminate the 2020 pandemic experience in Haudenosaunee artistic...
Run-through of probable COVID-19 vaccines
By Kaniehtonkie Canada became the third country to authorize the Pfizer Inc. Covid-19 vaccine. This vaccine is produced by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. Canada will begin its immunization rollout as...
MCA Covid-19 Community Care Packages
By Kaniehtonkie Several Mohawk Council of Akwesasne District Chiefs have organized 'Community Care Packages for residents in the northern portion of...
Legal weed won big in the 2020 election, Oregon went one step further
By Kaniehtonkie Oregon has become the first state in the nation to decriminalize the possession and personal use of all drugs. Voters in the state of Oregon approved Measure 110, this initiative also...