INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kanesatake, Quebec, Food Bank

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Wanted to build a golf course over top of burial lands. The kanehsatake people took over the area that was set aside for the golf course and there was an armed resistance. Early 1930"s some people started to play golf on the lands. The mayor appears in oka after 8 days. July 29, 1990: over 2500 people come and support the mohawk. Free circulation of food and medicine on both sides: no restrictions in terms of the delivery of food, the truck load is taken to this farm where a man will store the food. In a federal school, there is food bank made for those who are too scared to leave. The warriors reinforce their barricades when then army comes in. August 15, 1990: army is deployed near kahanawake and o, mohawk leaders and federal and provincial leaders talk in a neutral zone.