The Eastern Door is a community-based newspaper serving the community of Kahnawake since 1992.

The news that former United States president Joe Biden was granting former American Indian Movement (AIM) member Leonard Peltier clemency to serve out the...

The Eastern Door is a community-based newspaper serving the community of Kahnawake since 1992.

Courtesy Marc Miller, Ian Lafrenière The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) had back-to-back meetings with provincial and federal representatives last Friday to discuss various unresolved...

Oct 25, 2024 · A proposed $47.8 billion settlement agreement for a 10-year reform of First Nations child and family services in the country was shot down last week, after 267 chiefs and proxies voted against it at a special chiefs assembly hosted by the Assembly of First Nations (AFN). The final agreement offe

Aug 3, 2023 · With huge smiles and an abundance of medals around their necks, Kahnawake’s athletes returned from the 2023 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) to a joyous community parade, where the streets were lined with friends and family celebrating their achievements. “We all just bonded, and being ther

As we get closer and closer to December 25, the gift-getting window of opportunity shrinks more and more. Instead of doing a run on one...

Oct 18, 2024 · All the dumping going on in Kanesatake for so many years has created a horrible and unhealthy situation and has divided families and broken up the firm social tenet we all used to feel of “at least we protect the land.”

May 2, 2024 · After two years in the works, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) and Canada, but it’s not the end of a process – it’s merely the beginning of one. In an interview with The Eastern Door, Crown-Indigenous Relations minister Gary Ananda

Jan 11, 2024 · When we first started writing about the year that was, 2023, we read over the recaps (see pages 6, 9, 21) of the top stories of the year. Usually around this time, we do two things: we try to sum up the ones that we think are most interesting, and we coin the name for the year. This time around,