Looks at two crises faced by the Kanesatake (Oka) community and the resulting implementation of programs and services to assist the community deal with lasting trauma.

Interview with a political activist who was behind the barricades at Kanesatake.

Comments on creation of a community library in the territory of Kahnawake, due to a letter written by a thirteen year old student to her local paper.

War Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Military College of Canada, 2006.

Outlines recent court victories for the Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec, a reneged promise to the Lubicon Cree regarding logging in Alberta, and a fund-raising effort to offset lawyer fees for the people of Kanesatake.

Film about the historic confrontation at Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Québec in the summer of 1990 when the mayor of Oka agreed to appropriate sacred Mohawk land for a private golf course. This film contains scenes of violence. Duration: 119:24.

Agreement between the Mohawks of Kanesatake and the Government of Canada assented to June 14th, 2001.

Brief overview of the issues involved and the facts of the 1990 clash between Mohawks from Kanesatake and Kahnawake and the Sûreté du Québec and ultimately the Canadian Armed Forces. Revised version. Originally published September 1990.

Discusses how the concept of sovereignty, with its accompanying refusal to recognize the international border between Canada and the United States, has led to the illegal activities of groups, such as the Warrior Society, on the St. Regis reservation and the Kahnawake and Kanesatake reserves.

Research project that examines social work education and the professional needs, in terms of curriculum, of the Kahnawake and Kanehsatake communities.

This file contains an individual presentation by Claude Bisonnette, a non-Aboriginal who is a certified life insurer in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. He began working with the citizens of Kahnawake in 1987, to the surprise of his co-workers. Bisonnette had to assure them that "(I)f I was having problems with the Mohawks I simply wouldn't go back there." He tells the Commissioners that he is often shocked at the negative attention minor incidents in Kahnawake are given and says the media doesn't help.

This file contains a presentation by Mr. Patton and Curtis Nelson that addresses the symbolism of the Two-Row Wampum, increasing environmental pollution, and the Oka Crisis of 1990. Nelson states that the "Crown must find ways to provide resources for our original government so that fairness can be achieved, so that we may reverse centuries of colonialism and we can one day become self-sufficient without compromising our integrity as a nation." A lengthy question-and-answer session with the Commissioners follows the presentation.

This file contains a presentation by Rev. Dr. R. Burn Purdon, Rev. Faye Wakeling and Rev. Pierre Goldberger.

This file contains a portion of Volume 2 of a sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Akwesasne Mohawk School, Cornwall Island, Ontario. This portion of the Volume includes a presentation given by Louise Thompson and Joyce King-Thompson of the Akwesasne Justice Department, on the subject of the Akwesasne court system.

Reveals findings and recommendations from a hearing surrounding the events that took place at Kanesatake and Kahnawake during the summer of 1990. Reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada and it is reproduced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.

Thesis (M.A.)--Dalhousie University, 1998.

Discusses the current condition of Internet gambling in Canada and how the Kahnawake Mohawk Nation in Quebec is one of the largest online gambling sites in the world.