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The Oka Crisis (French: Crise d'Oka), also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (French: Résistance de Kanehsatà:ke),, or Mohawk Crisis, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course on land known as "The Pines" which included an indigenous burial ground. The crisis ...
Jul 11, 2013 · The Kanesatake Resistance, also known as the Oka Crisis or the Mohawk Resistance at Kanesatake, was a 78-day standoff (11 July–26 September 1990) between Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) protesters, Quebec police, the RCMP and the Canadian Army.
Jul 10, 2020 · The Oka Crisis woke up Indigenous peoples across Canada and around the world. It advanced efforts at the United Nations to approve a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Apr 26, 2023 · In the summer of 1990, a resistance occurred in Kanesatake, Quebec. Nearby is a town called Oka. This event has many names – the Oka Crisis, the Kanesatake Resistance, and the Mohawk Resistance. The main participants were Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) protesters, the Quebec police , the RCMP, and the Canadian Army.
Jun 30, 2020 · The Oka Crisis taught First Nations communities across Canada that the fastest way to make Canadians pay attention to their issues and come to the negotiating table was to disrupt their daily lives.
On August 20, 1990, the Canadian Armed Forces were deployed in Oka, a small town just outside Montreal. The Oka Crisis, a seventy-eight-day standoff between Mohawk protesters and provincial law enforcement over the proposed expansion of a golf-course onto disputed land which encompassed a Mohawk burial ground, has come to symbolize the ...
Jul 11, 2018 · The day marks the anniversary of the start of the 78-day 1990 standoff known as the Oka Crisis, between the people of Kanesatake, the Sû ré te du Québec and later the Canadian military over...
Sep 18, 2015 · One particular photograph captured the moment that went on to represent the entire siege at Kanesatake. Freelance photographer Shaney Komulainen was the woman behind the lens of that iconic image.
…important role during the so-called Oka Crisis in 1990 when it was blockaded by Mohawks from the reserve in support of the Mohawks of the nearby Kanesatake Reserve, who were seeking to prevent the expansion of a golf course and construction of condominiums at Oka on a Mohawk burial ground.
Jul 11, 2020 · Oka Crisis, 30 years later: Kanesatake's long struggle for land rights. On the 30th anniversary of the Oka Crisis, land claims remain unsettled. It's important to look back and understand the...
