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 By Kaniehtonkie    News    July 8, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    July 1, 2021

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,...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    June 24, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    June 17, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    June 10, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    May 20, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    May 13, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    May 13, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    May 13, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    May 13, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    April 29, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    April 22, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    April 15, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    April 8, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    February 18, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    February 18, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    February 11, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    February 11, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    February 4, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    January 28, 2021

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    December 10, 2020

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    December 10, 2020

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    December 3, 2020

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    November 19, 2020

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...

 
 By Kaniehtonkie    News    October 29, 2020

1492 Land Back Lane

by Kaniehtonkie It's been over 100 days since Six Nations members have demonstrated against the McKenzie Meadows development by Foxgate near Caledonia...

 

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