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People of the Pines : the Warriors and the legacy of Oka / by Geoffrey York and Loreen Pindera.

Title: People of the Pines : the Warriors and the legacy of Oka / by Geoffrey York and Loreen Pindera.
Author: York, Geoffrey, 1960-
Publication: Toronto : McArthur, 1999.

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Pindera, Loreen, 1959-

Description

454 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

For 78 days in the summer of 1990, Canadians were transfixed by the dramatic images of Mohawk warriors in an armed standoff with the Quebec police and the Canadian army. It was a crisis that paralyzed an entire province, gripped the nation's imagination, and forever transformed the politics of aboriginal people in Canada. People of the Pines is the insider's account of the amazing events at Oka and Kahnawake in the hot summer of 1990. Written by two journalists who lived at the warrior encampment in the final weeks of the military siege.

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Contents

1. Get ready to rock and roll : July 11, 1990 -- 2. Golfballs among the headstones : fighting the mayor's dream -- 3. Camoflage and ugly sticks : the occupation of the Pines -- 4. The two dog wampum : Oka's first Mohawk wars -- 5. Bulldozers in the Pines : Oka gets its first nine holes -- 6. Cowboys of the sky : a portrait of Kahnawake -- 7. Romans of the New World : a military history of the Mohawks -- 8. The psychology of fear : the rise of the Warrior Society -- 9. Food smugglers and gun runners : behind the barricades at Kanesatake -- 10. Buck fever : behind the barricades at Kahnawake -- 11. War songs and black wampum : the theology of violence -- 12. Shock waves : reverberations across Canada -- 13. Rolling out the razor wire : the army moves in -- 14. Disappearing act : the recapture of the Mercier Bridge -- 15. Bayonets and helicopters : the final siege -- 16. Walking home : the dénouement

ISBN

1552780600 (pbk.) :

OCLC

43280581

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Harvard Library