Marcus Bankuti

On the morning of November 21, a witness who spoke with The Eastern Door heard gunfire shortly after a car drove into the Sweet Grass Lodge cannabis dispensary.

The community can expect new social housing units after the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced it has secured $1.4 million in government funding earmarked for housing in Indigenous communities.While this could take the form of two new triplexes, for a total of six units to accommodate

The community can expect new social housing units after the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced it has secured $1.4 million in government funding earmarked for housing in Indigenous communities.

Last year's Indigenous Winter Market, organized by Kanehsatà:ke Tourism, was an instant classic, and this year's slate of vendors, activities, and performances is once again chock-full of cultural highlights.

How to send local youth on a trip down under without putting the family’s finances down under with it?That’s the question that was considered at this week’s fundraising meeting at Ratihén:te High School, where parents and students brainstormed ideas to generate money to pay for students to go t

Looking to burnish communications to the community, the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) is planning to move ahead with the creation of a dedicated smartphone app.“I think it’s a step in the right direction because now instead of relying on mailouts, we’re using the technology that’s already

An agreement billed as the first of its kind promises to open up the personnel records of hundreds of members of the Oblates of OMI Lacombe Canada who worked in dozens of residential schools, files that could assist communities in seeking truth and identifying abusers.The transfer of records to

Last term, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) chief Iohahiio Delisle was in a meeting that he found heartbreaking. Karihwanó:ron, the community’s Mohawk immersion elementary school for more than three decades, was full of mold, teaching the language out of an “old cigarette shack” on the cusp of bein

In 1990, Brooklyn Leblanc hunkered down to stand up for Kanien’kehá:ka sovereignty in what became known as the Oka Crisis, with almost all his money funneled to the nation for food and guns.“I fought from beginning to end in 1990, in the forest every night,” he said.Now 73 years old and faci

At this year's World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, New York, local lacrosse star Ava Weriasanoron Gabriel played for a hometown crowd, even signing autographs for the young Kanehsata'kehró:non athletes who travelled hours and hours to cheer her on.