In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis—or the Kanehsatake Resistance—exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada.
In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society had imagined was on the verge of disappearance. The 78-day standoff also reactivated a long history of Indigenous people’s resistance to colonial policies aimed at assimilation and land appropriation.
The land dispute at the core of this conflict raises obvious political and judicial issues, but it is also part of a wider context that incites us to fully consider the ways in which histories are performed, called upon, staged, told, imagined, and interpreted.
"Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature" examines the standoff in relation to film and literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. This new English edition of St-Amand’s interdisciplinary, intercultural, and multi-perspective work offers a framework for thinking through the relationships that both unite and oppose settler societies and Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Authors
Isabelle St. Amand, S.E. Stewart, Katsitsén:hawe Linda David Cree
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-303) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.4004/975542
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: La crise d'Oka en récits Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn-qu
- ISBN
- 9780887558191 9780887555527
- LCCN
- E99.M8
- LCCN Item number
- S7314 2018eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 315 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00976110 (CaOOCEL)455593
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Note on the Text 12
- Introduction 14
- Chapter 1: The Event and the Impossibility of Neutrality 25
- Chapter 2: The Siege in Action: Settler Crisis and Indigenous Resistance 44
- Chapter 3: The Disputed Land: Performing Sovereignty 87
- Chapter 4: From the Spectacular to the Documentary—Okanada: Behind the Lines at Oka 117
- Chapter 5: "A Record We Made Ourselves"—Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance 148
- Chapter 6: Settler Literary Narratives 183
- Chapter 7: Mohawk and Other Indigenous Literary Narratives 216
- Conclusion 258
- Acknowledgements 273
- Notes 278
- Glossary 296
- Bibliography 298
- Index 317
