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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795175203321

Autore

St. Amand Isabelle

Titolo

Stories of Oka : land, film, and literature / / Isabelle St-Amand ; translated by S. E. Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : , : University of Manitoba Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-88755-551-9

0-88755-552-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 315 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

cci1icc

coll13

Disciplina

971.404

Soggetti

Mohawk Indians - Québec (Province) - Kanesatake Indian Reserve - Government relations

Claims.

History

Québec (Province) History Native Crisis, 1990

Canada Politics and government 20th century

Canada Politics and government 1984-1993

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The event and the impossibility of neutrality -- The siege in action : settler crisis and Indigenous resistance -- The disputed land : performing sovereignty -- From the spectacular to the documentary-Okanada : Behind the Lines at Oka -- "A record we made ourselves"-Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance -- Settler literary narratives -- Mohawk and other Indigenous literary narratives.

Sommario/riassunto

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. This book examines the standoff in relation to film and literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous.