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"No one came out of the Oka Crisis a winner." There will likely be a commemoration of the Oka Crisis on July 11th. "To me personally, it's not something to celebrate,” said Kanesatake Grand...
- Viens Inquiry Came Decades Late
- Mohawk Money Helps Pay For Oka
- Some Things Worth Resisting
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 · 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 ...
Jul 10, 2020 · A dispute over an area known as the Pines kicked off a 78-day standoff, now familiar as the Oka Crisis. The then-mayor of Oka, Jean Ouellette, was looking to expand a golf course into sacred...
Jul 10, 2020 · Thirty years after the proposed expansion of a golf course sparked a 78-day standoff between Quebec Mohawks and Canadian soldiers, the land claims at the heart of the Oka crisis remain...
Nov 17, 2022 · In a 78-day armed standoff, the Kanien'kehà:ka (or Mohawk) people in Canada fought for their right to their land. Here's the full story of the 1990 Oka Crisis.
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Jul 8, 2015 · 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-blown combat.
