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Documentary film maker remembers the Oka Crisis on 25th anniversary

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National Film Board of Canada documentarian Alanis Obomsawin.

By Kelly Malone

Early evening on September 26, 1990 the last of a group of Mohawk warriors left their encampment and ended a 78-day standoff called the Oka Crisis.

At the centre of the crisis was a proposed expansion, without consultation, of a golf course and a development of condominiums on traditional Kanehsatake Mohawk land which included a burial ground.

The Kanehsatake began with a peaceful blockade to prevent the expansion, but on July 11 the Quebec Provincial Police were called in and... // Read Full Article


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