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Tom Liacas

TomLiacas

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&">https://actionnetwork.org/petitions... #ResistOka

Protect the Kanienkehà:ka Rights in the Oka Pine Forest

The latest provocation of the Kanien'kehà:ka of Kanehsatà:ke by the Oka municipality attempts to reappropriate the pines, the site of the 1990 siege, as a settler colonial site. This proposition,...

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-going-back-support-kanehsatake-rights-in-the-oka-pine-forest?source=twitter&

Some context: A timeline of 30yrs& #39; worth of aggression from this white settler community that sits right next to the Mohawk community of Kanesatake - unceded Kanienkehà:ka territory (thread)

& #39;Oka Crisis& #39; 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& #39;s plan to claim the Pines as & #39;protected municipal territory& #39; 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.

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