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Fighting For Their Land: The  Kanesatake Resistance

Fighting For Their Land: The Kanesatake Resistance

Published 6 years, 1 month ago
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For 270 years, the Indigenous at Oka had seen their land sold off and developed without consultation. Then, for several months in 1990, a group of Mohawk Indigenous stood up against developers to prevent a golf course from being built onto their land. It would change Canada forever.

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*sources*

  • Newspapers.com
  • Canadian Encyclopedia: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oka-crisis
  • CBC: Oka Crisis - The legacy of the warrior flag
  • CityNews: 35 years since the start of the Oka Crisis
  • Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/crown-indigenous-relations-northern-affairs/news/2020/07/30th-anniversary-of-the-oka-crisis.html

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