Artifact 4: Kanehsatake Land

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Artifact 4,” HIST 261 Post-Confederation Canadian History, accessed November 23, 2024, https://hist261exhibits.ca/admin/items/show/22.

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This artifact states the reason for the Oka Crisis of 1990. The reason for the Oka Crisis was due to an expansion of a golf course onto a burial ground in the Kanehsatake territory. The fight was to protect their land that their ancestors fought so hard to keep. This photo entails how the land belongs to the Mohawk people. This land has been fought for over centuries and in the Oka Crisis was another battle for the Mohawk people. This fight in 1990 was another argument over who the land belongs to too. The mohawk people fought for the golf course expansion to permanently shut down, which they succeeded in this battle. Unfortunately, the territory of Kanehsatake that belongs to the Mohawk people has never been officially turned over to them since this fight in 1990 over the land. The Canadian government bought the land and has never given it the title of a reserve.

 Bibliography: 

“Oka Crisis (Kanesatake Resistance) | the Canadian Encyclopedia.” n.d. Thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/timeline/oka-crisis.