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Documentary: Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance

  • Another important piece of american history, far too little known: Kanehsatake is a Mohawk community on the shore of the Lake of Two Mountains in southwestern Quebec, Canada, near Montreal. Its recent political history has been troubled. In 1990, the nearby town of Oka attempted to construct an extension of a golf course onto a burial ground used by the people of Kanehsatake. The Mohawks occupied the land, and when the Sûreté du Québec and Canadian Forces intervened, the result was the prolonged standoff of the Oka Crisis, ... The whole film here: Kanehsatake 270 Years of Resistance