Oka Crisis
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The Oka Crisis was an event which began on March 11th, 1990, and lasted until September 26th, near the town of Oka, Quebec. The town planned to build a golf course over a burial ground near the Mohawk town of Kanehsatake, resulting in the Mohawks blockading a road. In an initial confrontation between the Quebec Provincial Police and the Mohawk tribe, a police officer was killed.
The ensuing standoff and crisis caused a confrontation between the police, the Canadian Forces and the Mohawk tribe.
Other Mohawks at Kahnawake in solidarity with Kanehsatake blockaded the Mercier Bridge between the island of Montreal and the South Shore suburbs. They were able to do so since the southern end of the bridge passed through their territory. Enormous traffic jams and frayed tempers resulted as the crisis dragged on for many months before being resolved peacefully.
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- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Oka_Crisis" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
