Michael and Us
Michael and Us
Luke Savage and Will Sloan
#292 - The Kanehsatake Resistance
34 minutes Posted Dec 12, 2021 at 6:14 am.
0:00
34:50
Download MP3
Show notes
For 78 days in 1990, a group of Mohawk protestors withstood a siege from the Canadian armed forces. The root of the conflict? A town in Quebec sought to take over their land to expand a golf course. The Oka Crisis is the subject of Alanis Obomsawin's acclaimed documentary KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE (1993), which offers us an opportunity to consider how Canada treats its First Nations.
Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yP3srFvhKs