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Oka Crisis Research Paper

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Personally I have plenty of thoughts and opinions regarding what happened in July 11th, 1990 in the village of Oka, Quebec regarding Oka Crisis. The people of Oka, also known as Mohawks, were confronted with a plan to extend a golf course onto their native land. This specific piece of land was very sacred to the Mohawks as it has been burial grounds for their families. The people of Oka then made a barricade in attempts to protect these grounds. On July 11th the police intervened and attempted to destroy this barricade meanwhile, shots were fired, people were injured and the whole place was a mess. On that specific day, Marcel Lemay, an agent with the Sûreté du Québec (provincial police force), took his last breaths for he had been shot and

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