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When she was just 12 years old, filmmaker Tracey Deer decided she would make a film about the Oka Crisis — one that told the story from the perspective of an Indigenous child. The armed standoff ...
Twenty-five years on, the legacy of the Oka Crisis for many of those who experienced the tension west of Montreal is a greater awareness of native issues You can save this article by registering ...
During the 1990 Oka crisis, people in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake showed solidarity by blocking Highway 132 and the Mercier Bridge. ((CBC)) Community leaders on Montreal's south shore are ...
Until the Oka Crisis, all Lemay knew about indigenous peoples was what she had learned in school. “The Hurons were the good ones, and the Iroquois were the bad ones,” said Lemay, who remembers ...
Scars remain 30 years after Oka Crisis July 11 marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Oka Crisis, a 78-day standoff in Kanesatake between governments and Mohawks ...
As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka crisis. Offering a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defence of ...