PS282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Oka Crisis, Environmental Racism, Two Row Wampum Treaty
Document Summary
City council wanted to allow developer to extend golf course by extra 9 holes. July 11, 1990: sq sent force which engaged in gun battle and then withdrew. Sq barricaded roads to restrict access to oka. City backs down, golf course cancelled, standoff ends sept 26, 1990. Social determinates of health; poverty connections to health conditions. Treaty between seneca, cayuga, onodaga, oneida, and mohawk to form haudensaunee. Confederacy (they build a long house), 1720 tuscarora. British called them six nation, french called them iroquois. To establish cooperation b/w first nations and settlers. Two row wampum 1613 holland, 1653 french, 1677 british. Early treaties were about developing a peaceful, sharing coexistence. Land transfers from first nations, inuit and metis to british crown and canada after 1867. Royal proclamation 1763 secured sovereignty of the nations, allied agreements, secured land for the. Indians protected by the crown meaning only the crown can attain land. British crown passes responsibility of indian to canada.
