INDG 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mohawk People, Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, Kanesatake, Quebec

• School: Trent University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDG 1000Y
• Professor: Shpuniarsky Heather

Document Summary

The idea is it should be a forum for open discussion and represent everybody. The media matters and can have a large impact. Control of information and its diffusion and frame. Peoples have been portrayed as separate and hostile as well as romantic and disappearing. Occurred between july 11th and september 26th, 1990. Mohawk community had large disputed the continual expansion of the town oka . Oka crisis" extending back to 1717 and the sulpicians. Constant disputes over the years mohawks attack the town, take them to court and file a land claim. That specific land claim filed in 1977 was rejected in 1986 government stated there was not enough legal bass for the claim. Golf course intentions to expand in 1989 and clear the pines". Sacred space pines planted by the mohawk people over two centuries ago used as a burial ground and a gathering space.