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1-2 sentences for brief description of video- use as many keywords as possible and front-load description to put keywords first Click here for the full sto. Its been three decades since the groundbreaking 78-day standoff between Mohawks and Canadian soldiers.

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The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

. In a 2012 analysis of the events Indigenous-studies scholar Pauline Wakeham argued that the Canadian media and government at the time portrayed the Kanienkehaka as terrorists. The Oka Crisis was extensively documented and inspired numerous books and films. The Agenda reflects on the significance of the resistance that began outside Montreal in June 1990 how its influenced Indigenous people and culture and the land claim challenges. 270 Years of Resistance 1993 and Rocks at Whiskey Trench 2000.

The Oka Crisis a seventy-eight-day standoff between Mohawk protesters and provincial law enforcement over the proposed expansion of a golf-course onto disputed land which encompassed a Mohawk burial ground has come to symbolize the. On August 20 1990 the Canadian Armed Forces were deployed in Oka a small town just outside Montreal. The so-called Oka Crisis is one of the most legendary battles between indigenous land defenders and settlers in the last century. In July 1990 a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanienkéhaka Mohawk lands in Oka Quebec set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.

Oka Crisis 30 Years Later. Director Alanis Obomsawinat times with a small crew at times alonespent 78 days behind. Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has made documentaries about the Oka Crisis including Kanehsatake. The Oka Crisis might be 31 years in the past but a new feature film gives the events the immediacy of someone who was there.

270 Years of Resistance 1993 and Rocks at Whiskey Trench 2000. The incident which was revisited in Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawins 2000 NFB documentary Rocks at Whiskey Trench occurred at the height of the Oka Crisis in 1990 as women and children. 270 Years of Resistance released in 1993 which won 18 international awards. She made four films about the crisis including the first Kanehsatake.

The Oka Legacy Oka Crisis 101. Beans was re-enacted and filmed in the communities where the armed. Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau takes us on a short walk through the. 270 Years of Resistance.

Beans is a semiautobiographical film based on the experiences of Kanienkeháka filmmaker Tracey Deer who was a teenager during the Oka Crisis. It took place in the community of Kanesatake near the Town of Oka on the north shore of Montreal. The Oka Crisis was extensively documented and inspired numerous books and films. Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has made documentaries about the Oka Crisis including Kanehsatake.

New film shows Oka Crisis from perspective of Indigenous girl TRAILER Based on true events the film Beans chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and the Quebec government in 1990. The film the fourth and final in her series about the 1990 Oka Crisis focuses on one specific incident in that nasty period in the history of. Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki Nation and has been making documentaries for over four decades with a focus on the lives and concerns of First Nations. We started to document what was.

The film follows the 1990 Oka Crisis from the perspective of the main character Beans played by actress Kiawentiio as two Mohawk communities Kanehsatàke. The Oka Crisis also known as the Kanesatake Resistance or the Mohawk Resistance at Kanesatake was a 78-day standoff 11 July26 September 1990 between Mohawk protesters Quebec police the RCMP and the Canadian Army.