The Oka Crisis
The History Hour
BBC
4.4 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A watershed moment for Canada's indigenous people as Mohawks take on the developers, the birth of UKIP in Britain, memories of the poet Irina Ratushinskaya who died earlier this month - plus dance music with ballet star Nureyev's defection and illegal raving in England's countryside.
(PHOTO: A Mohawk activist confronts a soldier. Credit: IATV NEWS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson, |
| 0:04.8 | the past brought to life by those who were there. This week the rise of UKIP in the UK. |
| 0:10.7 | What started as a murmur in the pubs and clubs and wherever people congregate in this country |
| 0:18.0 | is now beginning to reach a crescendo roar. |
| 0:21.4 | And what people are saying is get Britain out. |
| 0:25.0 | Also the Soviet dissident poet Erreina Ratchezinskaya remembered and dance music two ways. |
| 0:32.0 | He has and dance music two ways. |
| 0:37.0 | He had enormous technical prowess, in enormous charisma, the moment he entered the stage, |
| 0:40.0 | the whole stage transformed itself. for the rest of the weekend to get yourself out of the house and onto |
| 0:54.0 | more common. So brace yourselves, that's all to come. But we begin with one of |
| 1:01.3 | those clashes which seem to characterize the conflict between ancient cultures and the modern world, |
| 1:06.8 | when a way of life which has been revered for centuries by indigenous people comes up against the will of the developer. This particular crash took place in the |
| 1:15.6 | Canadian province of Quebec in 1990 when a small group of Mohawk protesters attempted to block |
| 1:21.9 | plans for the expansion of a golf course. |
| 1:24.0 | The problem was that the golf course expansion encroached on an ancient Mohawk burial ground, |
| 1:29.0 | and the protesters were met with force from the authorities. |
| 1:33.0 | Rebecca Kessby has this report. |
| 1:35.0 | To see the tanks coming in, |
| 1:41.0 | we even had the fighter jets fly over us. This is all for a golf course. This is all for some |
| 1:47.6 | group of rich people, the elite, and their playground. This is what it was for. |
| 1:52.6 | In the summer of 1990, Ellen Katsis-Sakwas Gabriel was a spokesperson for the Mohawk |
| 1:58.4 | protesters in the village of Gunnis Itake, not far from Montreal. |
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