AV# 67524
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (CC)



Digital Video Disc - 1 hour, 59 minutes - Color - 1993



In the summer of 1990 a group of Kanehsatake people living near the village of Oka, Quebec, participated in an armed standoff between this First Nations people and both the Quebec police and the Canadian army. Filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 days wit h the Kanehsatake, recording their views on Mohawk land rights, the history of the dispute, their spirituality and the end of the standoff. National Film Board of Canada. Closed captioned.


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