The politics of the barricade. (tactics used by Native Americans to gain rights and political influence)(Native People - Politics)

From: Canada and the World Backgrounder | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

On 11 July 1990, a force of 100 Quebec Provincial Police armed with automatic rifles, concussion grenades, and tear gas assaulted a blockade defended by Mohawks at Oka, a small community near Montreal. The attack ended in a fierce exchange of gunfire and the death of police officer Corporal Marcel Lemay. An inquest decided the bullet that killed Cpl. Lemay came from a Mohawk gun.

The Oka barricade was erected on 11 March by Mohawks from the Kanesatake settlement. Its aim was to halt expansion of a golf course on land the Natives claimed as their own. By the time the Oka Crisis ...

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