GEG 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Friendly Fire, Society Of The Priests Of Saint Sulpice, Oka Crisis
1 Nov 2016
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Oka crisis, 1990 canada"s vietnam town of oka. Blockade summer : blockades across the canada major highways, logging roads, access routes first time that canadian military was sent out to use force against them since 1885. Land grant to the sulpician order 1717 & 1733 (near lake of two mountains in present day) Way to lure the mohawks was to promise them a land grant, said they would share their grant with them. > this is done on a nation to nation basis. > canada enters into treaties because of this proclamation. > crown means different things at different periods of time (now referred to as the governmental/federal crown) This is the fundamental nature of the sulpation dispute. Recognized title held by indian nations to land not already colonized. Only the crown could extinguish title through formal land surrender agreements. Legal constructs in european law: take by conquest, take by right of discovery.
