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Summary

When a vital arterial bridge connecting Montreal to the south shore of the St. Lawrence river was taken hostage in 1990, the Canada Armed Forces were called in to de-escalate a delicate standoff between the Mohawks of Kahnawake and the governments of Quebec and Canada.

Part 3 of 3.

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Sources:
A Brief History of the Land Dispute at Kensatake [Oka] From Contact to 1961, J. Thompson (1991)
Akwesasne Notes archives
At the Woods' Edge: An anthology of the history of the people of Kanehsatà:ke, B. K. Gabriel-Doxtater and A. K. Van den Hende (1995)
Carrying the Burden of Peace: The Mohawks, the Canadian Forces, and the Oka Crisis, P. W. Lackenbauer (2008)
CBC archives
Indian Time archives
Iroquois on Fire: A Voice from the Mohawk Nation, D. George-Kanentiio (2006)
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, A. Obomsawin (1993)
Life and Death in Mohawk Country, B. E. Johansen (1993)
Oka: A Convergence of Cultures and the Canadian Forces, T. C. Winegard (2008)
Oka: A Political Crisis and its Legacy, H. Swain (2010)
Oka A Political Crisis and its Legacy, S. Usborne, H. Swain, and K. Foster (2020)
Rocks at Whiskey Trench, A. Obomsawin (2000)
The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival, K. Louis Hall (2023)
The Oka Crisis: A Mirror of the Soul, J. Ciacca (2000)
When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, E. Gabriel and S. Carleton (2024)

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Sections:
00:00 The Bridge
07:12 The Evacuation
12:13 The Trench
15:59 The Fallout
23:34 The Accountability
29:14 The Upshot
32:49 The Rows

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