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The Oka Crisis
Kanesatake is a Mohawk community west of Montreal, and the land at issue was a pine wood with a burial ground the community had claimed for over two centuries. The crisis forced the question of land claims into Canadian public life and led directly to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, which produced one of the most extensive inquiries in the country's history in 1996. It is also an early example of live television coverage of an Indigenous confrontation shifting opinion as it happened. The land in question was eventually bought by the federal government, but never formally transferred to Kanesatake.
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