ID: 901002301 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002301	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Oka Crisis (Canadian history, 1990)

Note: Protest and blockade mounted by the Kanesatake Mohawk band against Canadian authorities. Centered on a land dispute between the Kanesatake Mohawk and Oka, Québec's mayor and city government; plans to extend a golf course into an historic Mohawk burial ground ignited the dispute. Blockades were assembled by Kanesatake individuals to cut off access to the burial ground and later to sever traffic between segments of Montr%00eal. At its height, the protest involved several different First Nations and the Canadian military. The grounds were eventually returned to the Kanesatake in late 1990. The crisis had wider implications, shaping the future of Canadian and First Nations relations with the establishment of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.

Display Date: 11 July-26 September 1990

Names:

	Oka Crisis (Canadian history, 1990) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Crisis, Oka (Canadian history, 1990) (English,A,N)
	The Mohawk Resistance (Canadian history, 1990) (English,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........<Canadian history> (P)
		............Oka Crisis (Canadian history, 1990) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... resistance (political activity)
	.....(political events, cultural events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	related to .... Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki filmmaker, born 1932)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	related to .... Alan Michelson (Native American installation artist, born 1953; Six Nations/Grand River Mohawk )
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	located in .... Oka
	.....(Québec province, Canada, North and Central America) (TGN)

Sources:

	Oka Crisis (Canadian history, 1990)
	................Canadian Encyclopedia [online] (2000-) "The Oka Crisis," accessed 13 May 2020, "Oka Crisis,"
	................Morris, Running the "Medicine Line" (2011) 573; accessed 13 May 2020
	................Canadian Museum of History online (2000-) "The Oka Crisis," accessed 13 May 2020, "Oka Crisis,"
	Crisis, Oka (Canadian history, 1990)
	................Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	The Mohawk Resistance (Canadian history, 1990)
	................Canadian Encyclopedia [online] (2000-) "The Mohawk Resistance," accessed 13 May 2020, "Oka Crisis"

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Canadian Encyclopedia [online] (2000-) accessed 13 May 2020, "Oka Crisis,"
	................ Morris, Running the "Medicine Line" (2011) 550-554, 573; accessed 13 May 2020
	................ Canadian Museum of History online (2000-) accessed 13 May 2020, "Oka Crisis,"