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Why Is The Oka Crisis Protest Movement Successful

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NBE3C The Oka Resistance: Its Success! Student: Ian Course: NBE3C Instructor: Ms. Bauer Due Date: 17 May 2024. Introduction: Did you hear about the death of a police officer during the Oka Crisis? This was significant because they died over a golf course. The Oka Crisis has been a significant protest in recent years. The Oka Crisis happened from July 11 to September 26 in 1990. It was a 78-day standoff that happened in Kanehsatake, Quebec, near the town of Oka (DeBruin). Protest movements work, as long as you do it properly and as long as you do it for the right reasons. A protest movement is successful if they achieve the goal they were protesting. The Oka Crisis protest movement was successful at that time. Three reasons why the Oka Crisis …show more content…

One fact on how the Oka Crisis unified people is that when the army tried to take the land, Mohawk banded with each other to make roadblocks and barbed wire fences they even laid out in front of tanks to stop them from moving forward (Meng). This unified the Mohawk people to protect their land, and they fought for what they believed in. In particular, Mohawk women were unified. They stopped Mohawk men from escalating a fight with military men, by arriving with ATVs (Deer). This is good to remember and recognize because it wasn't just men who fought, it was women as well, without the women showing up that day, lives would have been lost and families would have been broken. Men and women of the descendants of Mohawk living in Oka banded together to protect “The Pines” which is a sacred area that has been in a land dispute with the lake of two mountains for over 300 years (“Mohawk Council of Kanesatake takes Oka to court over The Pines”). Since the government wanted to take over the pines, it gave more of an incentive for the Oka people to band together and protect that area of their land. Since the people of Oka unified together, they achieved their goal in some ways more than

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