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NOW PLAYING. July 11 marks the 30th anniversary of the 1990 Oka Crisis. Here's a look back at Oka's long and complicated history. MONTREAL -- Randy Horne is a retired steelworker who lives in ...
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There were other missed opportunities, too. In the past 32 years, there have been major inquiries into allegations of the racist and often violent treatment of Indigenous peoples by police and the justice system: in Nova Scotia in 1989, in Manitoba in 1991, and in Ontario in 2007. Quebec had nothing to learn about similar abuses at home, apparently...
Oka is the old Mohawk village of Kanehsatake until it wasn't anymore, until the Sulpicians forced out Mohawk families and sold their farms out from under them. Ottawa helps Oka pay for fire protection, garbage collection and road maintenance, by giving the municipality nearly $1 million a year in lieu of property taxes for the few Mohawk properties...
Such ignorance and arrogance created conditions for a perfect storm of anti-Mohawk hatred 30 years ago when a small group of people stood in the Pines and said, "Enough. No more." The Oka Crisis of 30 years ago was about land and blockades, masked warriors and weapons, a pair of communities surrounded by police, and more soldiers sent to southern Q...
Jul 11, 2020 · Oka Mayor Jean Ouellette makes a formal request to the Quebec provincial police, the Sûreté du Québec, to clear the barricade and stop the "criminal acts" in the Pines next to the golf course.
Nov 17, 2022 · In response to the court decision that rejected the land claims of the Mohawk people, residents of Kanehsatà:ke created a barricade on the path leading to the burial ground as a protest on March 10, 1990. Meant to prevent any development towards the expansion, more and more members of the Kanehsatà:ke community soon joined the protest.
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Nov 20, 2010 · This summer the Coalition was supporting Ellen Gabriel’s group, which was working on an event to commemorate the 20 th anniversary of the Oka Crisis with an exhibit, speeches, a book launch, and a march. One of the positive impacts of the Oka Crisis is that the media became interested in Indigenous people.
Jul 8, 2015 · OKA, Que. — It was a crisis that grabbed international headlines, with armed Mohawks and Canadian soldiers involved in a lengthy standoff that often appeared on the verge of exploding into full ...
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Jul 11, 2020 · The Oka Crisis didn’t unfold over 78 days that summer in 1990. It took centuries. The King of France granted a vast tract of land for Mohawk settlement in 1716. Four years later he handed it to ...
