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The Oka Crisis

2017/7/14
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Indigenous Canadians objected to plans to develop a golf course on the site of a burial ground in Quebec in 1990. The dispute led to a summer-long siege between Mohawk protestors and Canadian security forces. Ellen Katsi'tsakwas Gabriel is a Mohawk activist who spoke to Rebecca Kesby about the crisis.

Photo: A Mohawk activist confronts a soldier. Credit: IATV NEWS.