| Comments | Oka QC, July 11, 1990. Members of the militant Mohawk Warrior's Society set up roadblocks over a dispute involving Mohawk claims to land being used for expansion of the Oka golf club; this led, on July 11, 1990, to the death of a QPP officer during a failed assault on the barricades and the blocking of the Mercier Bridge near Chateauguay, southwest of Montréal, Québec; the army was called in to handle the situation; the stand-off continued all summer with attention focused on the Kahnesatake reserve at Oka and the Kahnawake reserve near Chateauguay; the crisis gave rise to native protests and sympathy blockades across Canada; the crisis came to an end when a group of Mohawk warriors holed up in a treatment centre in Kahnesatake surrendered to the army on Sept. 26, ending the 78-day stand-off. 10,000 people were evacuated. |