Oka Uprising

The Oka Uprising or the Oka Crisis in the media was an indigenous uprising in Oka, Canada in 1990.
== Background ==
Canada had been founded as a genocidal state from the very beginning. Murdering indigenous people by the millions, stealing their land and kidnapping their children to be put in schools notorious for sexual abuse of children. This program succeeded and for years indigenous Canadians were dispossessed as capitalism exploited their land and labor. In 1989, it was announced that a golf course was to be expanded onto sacred Mohawk land in the small town of Oka with the additional construction of 60 new apartments.
== Results ==
The golf course and apartments construction on traditional lands was defeated, and the conflict came to a dignified conclusion for the Mohawk.Peter Gelderloos (2015) The Failure of Nonviolence
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