Oka standoff

Oka Crisis
Patrick Cloutier, a 'Van Doo' perimeter sentry, and Anishinaabe Warrior Brad Larocque, a University of Saskatchewan economics student, facing off became one of Canada's most widely circulated images.
Date July 11 - September 26, 1990 Location Oka, Quebec Result Civil dispute suppressed; Mohawks retain land under threat
Belligerents
Canada	Mohawk Protesters and Activists
Commanders and leaders
Brian Mulroney John de Chastelain Robert Bourassa	N/A
Strength
Canadian Forces: 4500 soldiers, 1000 vehicles Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Small numbers positioned at various barricades & patrols Sûreté du Québec: 10-100 Groupe d'intervention operatives 2000 regular police, dozens of vehicles	Local activists: 600 armed warriors Dozens of unarmed local activists Non-local activists: 2,500 activists/warriors
Casualties and losses
20 CF wounded. 10 Constables hospitalized. 1 SQ Groupe d'intervention operative killed.	75 wounded, 100 charged. Numerous detained.

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The Oka Crisis or Oka Resistance (French: Crise d'Oka) was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 78 days until September 26, 1990 with one fatality. The dispute was the first well-publicized violent conflict between First Nations and the Canadian government in the late 20th century.

Mohawk people first settled in the Montreal area in the early 18th century, moving north from their homeland in the Hudson River valley. They displaced the Wyandot people (or Hurons) native to the area, with whom the Haudenosaunee (of which the Mohawk were a tribe) had long been in conflict, and who had been weakened through prolonged contact with French settlers. Mohawk settlement in the St Lawrence river valley was influenced to a great extent by French Jesuit missionaries who sought converts from among the Mohawk and who established Jesuit missionary villages for them at Kahnawake and Kahnesatake.

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