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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 burial ground.
In 1995, he appeared in a softcore pornographic film, Quebec Sexy Girls II: The Confrontation, which specifically parodied the events at Oka. [3] [9] As of 2015, he was working for the Canadian Coast Guard. Cloutier would later insist that he had never supported the original cause of the conflict: a golf course.
In March 1990, Gabriel joined in the movement against the expansion of a golf course in Oka, Quebec.That event eventually escalated into the Oka Crisis.In order to raise awareness of the crisis, she travelled internationally, including visits to The Hague, Strasbourg, and Japan.
Currently, the party actually operating the course is a subcontractor, as has been the case since 1986 when the Tyson family subleased the operation of the golf course to a third party.
The golf course is not a threatened species in the Sunshine State — but the Florida scrub-jay is. State parks "are the last strongholds for a lot of wildlife in rapidly urbanizing communities in ...
A rough start to the season had Wyndham Clark digging through past notes, listening to old books — anything to get his mind out of the negative. Clark saved par after hitting his tee shot into ...
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance is a 1993 feature-length documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, highlighting the events of the 1990 Oka Crisis.Obomsawin documents the events of The Siege of Kanehsatake over 78 days, capturing a rare perspective of an important turning point in Canadian history.
John Ciaccia (March 4, 1933 – August 7, 2018) was a Canadian politician who was provincial cabinet minister from Montreal, Quebec.Ciaccia served as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1998, representing the Mount Royal riding for the Quebec Liberal Party.