Kanehsatake / 270 Years of Resistance
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
VIDEO
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Description
(Doc., Canada, 119 min., Closed Captioned) A feature-length, multi-award winning documentary by Native American filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin set in the thick of the armed confrontation between Native American Mohawks and Canadian government forces during the 1990 standoff in the Mohawk village of Kanehsatake near the village of Oka in Quebec. The two-and-a-half month ordeal received brief national attention when the Mohawk warriors of Kahnawake, in support of their brothers from nearby Kanehsatake, temporarily held the busy Mercier Bridge leading to Montreal, in an effort to bring world attention to the situation.
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