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The Oka Crisis (French: Crise d'Oka), [8] [9] [10] also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance (French: Résistance de Kanehsatà:ke), [1] [11] [12] or Mohawk Crisis, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, over plans to build a golf course on land known as "The Pines" which included an indigenous ...
The Kanesatake land claim is one of the most politicized land claims in Canada, in parts because of its significance during the Oka Crisis. The claim originates from the original establishment of the Sulpician mission on the shore of Lac des Deux-Montagnes, where land was set aside for the Mohawks to settle in 1717.
Oka Crisis, land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, in 1990; Ipperwash Crisis, land dispute in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario, in 1995; Gustafsen Lake Standoff, confrontation between police and Ts'peten Defenders in British Columbia in 1995; Caledonia Land Dispute, a demonstration to raise awareness about ...
The report, released last year, concluded the bank wasn’t directly to blame for the evictions targeted at the Sengwer, but said the bank might have helped prevent abuses against them if it had enforced its own rules — including the requirement that its borrowers respect the land rights of indigenous peoples.
The Mohawks of Kanesatake have tried many times to resolve the land dispute (as part of their land claim against the government and Sulpician mission), but were rejected by the Crown on technical issues. [citation needed] In 1990, the town of Oka unilaterally approved plans to expand their 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole course and related ...
Reports linked a group who lay claim to a stretch of public land to the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its convicted sex offender leader Warren Jeffs. This was not ...
Visitors can't reach at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites because of Mexican drug cartel violence and a land dispute, according to The Associated Press.. Mexico’s government has acknowledged ...
Norwell acquired the land through tax foreclosures in 1989, and in 2004 residents voted at town meeting to use the land for affordable housing. In 2021, the town requested proposals for Chapter ...