Québec History 34 - The Oka Crisis

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The Mohawks community was formally founded in the early 1700s. Mohawk had used the territory as a hunting ground since the late sixtenth century. Historians and anthropologists believe they pushed out or destroyed the St. Lawrence "Iroquoians", a distinct Laurentian group, discovered by Jacques Cartier, who had inhabited villages along the St. Lawrence River since at least the 1300s. This is one of several reserves or settlements where the Mohawks are self-governing in Canada, including Kahnawake, Akwesasne and the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation. After the great peace of Montréal, to encourage the Mohawks to move their people near Montréal, the French governor gave them a grant for nearly nine square miles at the Lake of Two Mountains. The Sulpician Order, which had established a mission with the Mohawk, received a smaller grant for land next to them. The religious order had the deeds changed so that all the land was granted to the Mohawks. Believing the Order supervised land in trust for them, the Mohawks did not discover the deception until the late 19th century. They lost a land claim case in the late 20th century on technical issues. In 1990 Oka's planed to develop a pine grove and cemetery for another nine holes of a private golf course and new luxury housing. The land had long been used by the Mohawk. Their ancestors' tombstones stand in the cemetery. A few years' previously, the Mohawk had lost a federal lawsuit claim for the land, when the Court <b>...</b>

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Québec, Nation, History, Oka, Crisis, Mohawks, Iroquois, Warriors, Native, Americans, Great, Peace, of, Montréal, Huron, Algonquin, Provincial, Federal, Government

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