Kanesatake grand chief backs drug raid, questions police ‘pageantry’
Police raids are not new for residents of the small Mohawk community of Kanesatake in Quebec.
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Kanesatake warns Oka over planned mining exploration
The municipality of Oka has received a warning from Kanesatake over plans to allow a Quebec mining company to explore a dormant niobium mine on claimed Mohawk territory.
WikiLeaks Kanesatake revelations has community members calling for public inquiry
A new batch of WikiLeaks cables includes some interesting details about the botched raid in 2004 of Kanesatake.
Quebec asked for FBI help during 2004 Kanesatake crisis: U.S. diplomatic cables
Quebec authorities requested help from the F.B.I. after “gun slingers” from Colorado arrived in Kanesatake, the Mohawk community at the centre of the Oka crisis, to back a “resistance” force that sprung after a federally-funded raid of the territory ended in disaster, according to diplomatic cables obtained by APTN National News.
‘Both sides armed and ready to shoot’ in Kanesatake: U.S. cable
U.S. officials were keeping an eye on Kanesatake, the Mohawk community at the centre of the Oka crisis, during the winter of 2004 after a failed attempt to raid the community with dozens of First Nations police officers from other parts of Quebec, a U.S. State Department cable released by Wikileaks shows.
Kanesatake faces down mining company
A controversial mining proposal is bringing together two communities in Eastern Canada.