Oka Crisis
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The Oka Crisis, also known as the Mohawk Crisis or Kanehsatà:ke Resistance, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course o
Canadian soldiers and Sûreté du Québec officers on 3 September 1990
Members of the Seton Lake Indian Band blockade the BC Rail line in support of Oka, while an RCMP officer looks on. Later in the day, several elders protesting were arrested, and a confrontation with the band community ensued as Mounties drove the cars holding those arrested through the reserve en route to Lillooet.
Mohawk Warrior Society
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The Rotisken’rakéhte, also known as the Mohawk Warrior Society and the Kahnawake Warrior Society, is a Mohawk group united around the care, preservation and defence of the Mohawk people and their land
Oka Crisis
…Team (ERT), a police tactical unit, threw tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at the protesters in an attempt to force them to disperse. The Kahnawá:ke Warrior Society was called in for reinforcements, and by 6:20 a.m. they were seizing Honoré-Mercier Bridge and the highways which fed into it. They gained control of…
Mohawk Warrior Society flag at Beyond NoDAPL March on Washington, DC.
NoDAPL March on Washington, DC.
Brother of Leonard Peltier speaking at Standing Rock and Beyond NoDAPL March on Washington, DC.
Beyond NoDAPL March on Washington, DC.