I just signed this petition and you should too if you support the sovereign rights of Indigenous people: Protect the Kanienkehà:ka Rights in the Oka Pine Forest. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-going-back-support-kanehsatake-rights-in-the-oka-pine-forest?source=twitter& #ResistOka

Some context: A timeline of 30yrs' worth of aggression from this white settler community that sits right next to the Mohawk community of Kanesatake - unceded Kanienkehà:ka territory (thread)

'Oka Crisis' 1990 - White settler community of Oka tries to expand a golf course onto a burial ground in The Pines, on unceded Kanienkehà:ka territory

Cut to 2016, Mayor Quevillon’s urban development plan explicitly stated the intention of taking unceded land. In a meeting, claims Indigenous community was brought to the area by missionaries.

2017, 2019 - Multiple housing developments initiated in Oka once again slated for unceded Kanienkehà:ka territory

June 2020, archeological digs initiated on Indigenous land.

And now, this fall in 2020, the Oka Major's plan to claim the Pines as 'protected municipal territory' initiated by the settler community with no Indigenous consultation. The same Pines that contain a site of great significance to the Mohawk community, trigger of the 1990 crisis.