Mohawks of Kanehsatake and their supporters from Kahnawake, stand-off against the Quebec police and the Canadian military in defense of a sacred burial ground.This film deals with mature subject matter. Viewer discretion is advised.
Duration: 104:34.
Comments on an artist, Rebecca Belmore, who created a giant megaphone as a protest piece and toured it across Canada in 1992 including a 3-day stop at the Protectors of the Mother Earth Wiggins Bay Blockade in Northern Saskatchewan.
Duration: 26:13.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 3, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Almanac of the Dead, Fall, 1998, pp. 47-64
Description
Discusses the novel's theme of a political revolution which will ultimately result in the disintegration of European power over Aboriginal peoples.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Background Paper (Library of Parliament, Research Branch) ; BP-235E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Patricia Begin
Wendy Moss
Peter Niemczak
Description
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.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1998, pp. 86-95
Description
Book reviews of:
Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary and Activist edited, with introduction and epilogue by Jay C. Fikes; foreword by James Botsford; afterword by Walter Echo-Hawk.
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan.
Red Earth: Two Novellas by Philip H. Red Eagle.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
File contains a presentation by Commission Co-Chair Georges Erasmus during the first public meeting of said Commission. Erasmus spoke about how Chief Thunderchild viewed the need to hold on to Aboriginal land rights, and how this was still important in the nineteen-nineties.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jerry Wetzel
Description
File contains a presentation by Jerry Wetzel of Conne River, Newfoundland, describing in detail the history of the Mi'kmaq people in Newfoundland and the French in the 1700s. He debunks the "Mi'kmaq Mercenary Myth," a common myth that the Mi'kmaq people were brought to Newfoundland by the French to exterminate the Beothuks. Wetzel states that the Royal Proclamation of 1763 has been used by the Canadian government to "try to oppress the Mi'kmaq people and to destroy, to usurp their lands and destroy their self-government.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenneth Emberley
Description
File contains a presentation by Kenneth Emberley. Emberley briefly discusses the Oka Crisis, then presents on the connection between being an administered people and many of the social ills plaguing Aboriginal communities. Emberley then presents a series of ideas on imping the Land Claim process, preserving Aboriginal rights, the need for a whistle-blower's law, and dealing with the legacy of residential schools. The remainder of the presentation deals with world affairs and resource use as the presenter thinks they pertain to the goals of Aboriginal peoples.