Kanesatake warns Oka over planned mining exploration
The municipality of Oka has received a warning from Kanesatake over plans to allow a Quebec mining company to explore a dormant niobium mine on claimed Mohawk territory.
The municipality of Oka has received a warning from Kanesatake over plans to allow a Quebec mining company to explore a dormant niobium mine on claimed Mohawk territory.
The federal government has developed a “hot spot” reporting system to monitor First Nations protests that includes the involvement of several departments, police and intelligence agencies, according to documents provided to APTN National News.
A new batch of WikiLeaks cables includes some interesting details about the botched raid in 2004 of Kanesatake.
Quebec authorities requested help from the F.B.I. after “gun slingers” from Colorado arrived in Kanesatake, the Mohawk community at the centre of the Oka crisis, to back a “resistance” force that sprung after a federally-funded raid of the territory ended in disaster, according to diplomatic cables obtained by APTN National News.
U.S. officials were keeping an eye on Kanesatake, the Mohawk community at the centre of the Oka crisis, during the winter of 2004 after a failed attempt to raid the community with dozens of First Nations police officers from other parts of Quebec, a U.S. State Department cable released by Wikileaks shows.
Holding an umbrella in the rain, Melanie Morrison stood near the concrete steps leading up to the Parliament’s Centre Block were the country’s politicians pass laws and tried not to cry as she talked about her sister, whose bones were found by a construction worker last summer near Montreal.
A dispute between a developer and the Mohawks of Kanesatake appears to finally coming to an end.
A controversial mining proposal is bringing together two communities in Eastern Canada.