Crisis of Oka

The Crise of Oka is a political crisis which opposed the nation mohawk to the State Québécois, during the summer 1990 (March 11th - September 26th). This last incompetent to regulate the crisis asked for the assistance of the Canadian Armée.

Context

Sharp tensions existed since good a long time between Mohawks and Québécois, but what put fire with the powders was the decision of the mayor of the town of Oka to grant a license to a Québécois promoter in order to shave part of a ancestral Cimetière mohawk with an aim of increasing a ground of Golf. This subject divides much with the more recent crises such as Ipperwash and Caledonia.

Unfolding

Several Mohawks, supported by members of other nations Amerindian born thus organized resistance, in particular while assembling barricades on the Mercier bridge (this bridge connects the island of Montreal to its southern bank and is located close to the reserve mohawk of Kahnawake), as of the March 11th. To try to put an end to rising, the province of Quebec sent its police force, the Safety of Quebec (SQ), but resistant the mohawks, called “warriors” (warlike), pushed back an attack of the police force, assassinating in particular a police officer, the corporal Marcel Lemay.

Part of the Québécois population was then gained of a resentment towards the mohawk cause. It is in this context that a demonstration took place at city LaSalle (close to the Mercier bridge) with short which one burned a mannequin representing indigenous by stressing “Quebec with the Inhabitants of Quebec” (nationalist slogan of the years 1970).

In front of Mohawks which did not seem to fear the SQ, the chief of the Parti Québécois, Jacques Parizeau, as chief of the official opposition to the government of Quebec, then made pressure on the Prime Minister Robert Bourassa so that this last requires the assistance of the Canadian army to put an end to the rising of the nation mohawk necessary

See too

External bond

  • Assessment of the century: March 11th, 1990 - Beginning of the Crisis of Oka, University of Sherbrooke
  • Report on the stakes, Radio-Canada
  • Report on the crisis, Radio-Canada.

References

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