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Summary

A crisis 300 years in the making turned into Canada’s biggest news story of 1990 when the Canadian Armed Forces came head to head with the paramilitary combatants of the Mohawk Warrior Society on a golf course outside of Montreal.

Part 2 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)

Music:
All music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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Sections:
00:00 The Lie
10:12 The Course
21:54 The Raid
24:46 The Negotiations
43:29 The Army
59:35 The Media
1:04:58 The Solidarity

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