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Four men stepped out of the crowd gathered near the Connohake Mohawk Reserve near Montreal, Quebec.

They carried with them a life-size effigy of an indigenous man dressed in army fatigues and holding a bow and arrow.

The men walked to the front of a cheering crowd and painted a large red target on the effigies chest.

Then they placed a noose around its neck.

The angry mob applauded as the men flung a rope over a traffic light and hoisted the effigy

into the air just before setting it on fire. This racist and ugly scene was in response to block

aides set up by Mohawks fighting to stop the expansion of a golf course. I'm Kathy Kinsora and this

is History of the 90s,

a podcast about a decade that changed the world.

In this episode, we look back at a 78-day standoff

near Oka, Quebec, which reopened grievances

and ultimately forced Canada to confront the reality

of its relationship with indigenous people.

This is the story of the Konasitake Resistance.

The small village of Oka, Quebec, sits on the northern bank of the Lake of Two Rivers,

about 50 kilometers west of Montreal in the picturesque Laurentian mountain region.

The forests and beaches surrounding the village are popular with tourists, who also come to the

area to visit the Oka Abbey, a 140-year-old monastery that was once home to Trappist monks, who arrived

in Canada after being expelled from France in 1792.

It was at this monastery where the monks began making the stinky but very popular Oka cheese.

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