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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 11, 2020 · A police officer, Sû ré te du Québec Cpl. Marcel Lemay was killed — sparking the 78-day standoff known as the Oka Crisis. The disputed territory at Oka is a part of a 300-year-old land ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
