SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Kanesatake, Quebec, First Nations, Heredity
Document Summary
The oka crisis [200 days 1990: town of oka, quebec wants to expand golf course, land claimed by the kanesatake mohawk, group "mohawk warrior society" erect barricades on site of claimed burial ground. Intervention to prevent construction: started in march of 1990. Increasing pressure from town council to do something about occupation of the area: july 11, oka mayor asks s ret quebec (provincial police) to move in & remove protestors & barricades, got headlines everywhere. Influence of darwinian evolution: although not overtly racists, some took his theories into these directions (eugenics, no basics in science whatsoever, scientific classification, linnaean system sought to classify diversity of life, was applied to human groups as well. Ethnic hatred/distrust, often expressed as negative/conflictual relations b/w 2 or more minority groups: each trying to gain benefits of modern world and as a result of that, clash.
