Kahnawake

“Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance” deals with the Oka crisis, a confrontation between Mohawk Indians living in an area near Oka and the Canadian military. The interest of a local land development leads to an approval by government to expand a private 9-hole golf course and build a luxury housing, both to be located on the burial ground and sacred pine grove belonging to the Mohawk nation. These served as an impetus for a 270 year battle to officially regain the territory. A crowd of Mohawk Indians blocked incoming construction equipment, and then the invaders called SQ(Quebec’s provincial police) came in. It was soon escalated to an armed conflict when the SQ fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. In the chaos, some of the Mohawk Indians managed to acquire an abandoned bulldozer, which they used to shove away police cars used as a barricade. Finally Canadian First Nations came to negotiate and support for the Inidans, but, at the same time, the main highway entry to the kanehsatake reserve was being blocked by armed troops. The battle started. To protest against a media blackout imposed by the military, some filmmakers and journalists infiltrated into this troubled region. Alanis Obomsawin was one of them, focused on the history and context behind the conflict. She seemed to want to find the root cause of this tragic incident. So, she provides us with some background about the conflict. The priests of Saint Sulpice had monopolized the territory of Mohawk from 1716 to…

Today I am going to be talking about the Mohawk tribe and their daily life. Next I am going to talk about their traditions and what they do every day. Now what I am going to be writing about their present day facts and what they basiclly do every day in their daily life. Where the Mohawk Tribe Indians live. There are a lot of Mohawk Indians That live in Canada city. Some other Mohawk Indians live in New York city. Most Mohawk Indians live in North America for us. They live in North…

A nation 's identity not only represents the physical boundaries of the country but also the citizens living within the boundaries. Hesford and Brueggemann explore how the identity of a nation can be portrayed in memorials within "National Gazes: Witnessing Nations", whereas Adam J. Green focuses on investigating the complexities of identity within Canada and the United States through editorial cartoons in his essay "Mapping North America". In Ryan Edwardson 's essay "The Many Lives of Captain…

The following paper will summarize the Oka crisis, and a filmed by Alanis Obomsawin. The paper highlights major events during a standoff between the Mohawks of Kanehsatake and the Quebec Government regarding a land claim. A brief summary of the Oka crisis will be provided followed by a summation of Alanis Obomsawin film Kanehsatake: 270 years of Resistance. During the summation of the film messages, depictions, and observations regarding events and the style in which the film was produced are…

Despite the mother being of Kahnawake blood, the family is denied acceptance due to the mother deciding to marry out of the tribe, a white man she had met from Texas. This is a prime example of gender discrimination found in the Indian Act, and was highly criticized by Aboriginal women, specifically Jeanette Corbiere, and Yvonne Bedard, who took the Government to court over violation of the Canadian Bill of Rights. Section 12 of the Indian Act states that “a status Indian woman who married a…

saints, that boasted the missionaries achievements, maybe based on some elements of truth, to obtain more money, means and encouraged new conversions, some Indians, especially women, also used this new religion as a way of gaining more autonomy.9 In fact, Roman Catholicism employs female imagery, like the Virgin Mary, that Native women could see as symbols of power. Kateri Tekakwitha is an excellent example of how religious and cultural syncretism could serve both Jesuits and Indian purposes.…

life of Catherine. For example, the Jesuits describe Tekawitha to have lived an isolated life constantly secluding herself from the other natives, but Greer questions the description of Tekawitha’s childhood and believes that this was not possible. Greer states that the Mohawk community and all the other members of the longhouse all work together and live in a very close community. Greer states that Tekawitha along with other native children had duties that must be followed and believes that…

salvation from a very early age on. Mintz writes that they "did not sentimentalize childhood; they regarded even newborn infants as potential sinners who contained aggressive and willful impulses that needed to be suppressed". In comparison, Native American children lived a childhood that was relatively free and happy. They were also loved much more affectionately than were their Puritan counterparts. In fact, Mintz starts off chapter one by telling the story of 7-year-old Eunice Williams, who…

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and the further I read into the book I felt I could better grasp John Demos’s outlook and reasoning behind this book. The book starts out with a vivid description of a crisp autumn night ready to turn into turmoil. Setting the tone for the book, John Demos jumps quickly into the chaos between the french and native americans. John Demos used many different methods of writing, argumentive, narrative, etc. His form of writing in the book really stuck out to me as I’ve never experienced a novel…