Oka Crisis
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Documentary recounts Oka Crisis through eyes of female land defendersA film set to screen in Montreal provides a different perspective on the 1990 Oka Crisis. Ellen Gabriel's Kanatenhs – When The Pine Needles Fall shows it through the eyes of women.PoliticsAug 10, 2023
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Billy Two Rivers, retired Mohawk wrestler and politician, dies at 87Billy Two Rivers rose to fame as a wrestler in the 1950s, and spent nearly a quarter of a century in the ring before he turned to politics.CanadaFeb 13, 2023
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Convoys mark 30th anniversary of Oka crisis as land dispute remains unchangedThirty years ago today, on July 11, 1990, Quebec provincial police moved in on a barricade erected by Mohawks in the spring to protest the planned expansion of a golf course on what is ancestral land in Oka, about 50 kilometres northwest of Montreal.CanadaJul 11, 2020
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Kanesatake land claims remain unresolved 30 years after Oka crisisThe land claims at the heart of the 1990 Oka crisis remain unresolved, Indigenous leaders and elders say.CanadaJul 10, 2020
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Meet the two 19-year-olds at the heart of the Saskatoon Wet’suwet’en campKiyari McNab and David Kelly set up camp on Saturday afternoon and haven't left.CanadaFeb 24, 2020
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Wet’suwet’en protests: Violent ends to past confrontations haunt Trudeau’s governmentEven as he called Friday for police to enforce injunctions and bring down the barricades, Trudeau stressed the need for a peaceful resolution and worried about the potential for another Oka.CanadaFeb 23, 2020
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‘We’ve been working night and day’ to resolve blockades: Kahnawake grand chiefDemonstrations on the Canadian Pacific-owned tracks running through Kahnawake have led to the suspension of Exo's Line 4 Candiac, which shuttles thousands of south shore commuters to downtown Montreal each day, for nearly two weeks.CanadaFeb 19, 2020
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Why the 1990 Oka Crisis is being evoked amid the Wet’suwet’en pipeline disputeHere's a closer look at the crisis, and what's being said about it now amid the current disagreement over pipeline construction on Wet'suwet'en territory.PoliticsFeb 18, 2020
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History of the ’90s podcast: Top stories of 1990If 1990 was anything, it was a year of incredible change -- sure, it was the beginning of a new decade, but more than that… much more… it was the start of a new era in human history.WorldDec 25, 2019
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Mohawk grand chief and Oka mayor shake hands following weeks of tension in land disputeKanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon and Oka Mayor Pascal Quevillon told reporters they have put their differences behind them.PoliticsAug 30, 2019
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