We don’t want 1990 to have happened in vain
It’s been 30 years since the siege of Kanehsatà:ke, popularly known as “the Oka Crisis” when Quebec provincial police and the Canadian armed forces attacked the Mohawk community of Kanehsatà:ke, over the Mohawks refusal to let the municipality of Oka expand a golf course into their cemetery. Kanehsatà:ke resident Ellen Gabriel resident witnessed these events first hand.
FRONTLINE REPORTS
Franklin López
7/9/20201 min read
We don’t want 1990 to have happened in vain
2020, Duration 03:21
It’s been 30 years since the siege of Kanehsatà:ke, popularly known as “the Oka Crisis” when Quebec provincial police and the Canadian armed forces attacked the Mohawk community of Kanehsatà:ke, over the Mohawks refusal to let the municipality of Oka expand a golf course into their cemetery. Kanehsatà:ke resident Ellen Gabriel resident witnessed these events first hand.
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