What was the Oka Crisis?

The crisis developed from a local dispute between the town of Oka and the Mohawk community of Kanesatake. The Mayor of Oka was developing plans to expand a golf course and sixty luxury residents onto land which had traditionally been used by the Mohawk as a burial ground for their ancestors. The Mohawks had filed a land claim for the land and burial ground near Kanesatake, but their claim had been rejected in 1986. When the expansion of the golf course began the first Nations were frustrated and took stand by protesting and violence.

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