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Was living in Chateauguay at the time and working in Montreal West. the Mercier bridge was shut down for a long time (Months)and i remember having to take a long detour via Valleyfield to get to work.
While I sympathize with the Natives. I think they way over reacted. Imho the armed forces showed great restraint. In any other country the natives with guns and yelling would have all been killed.
Oh, I have met Waneek Horn-Miller. She's an exceptional person - poised, intelligent, and driven. She's also active in combating racism within her own Kahnawake community against non-native residents and mixed race members, which she attributes to legal rules that primarily conceive of natives as a racial group, rather than as a cultural groups. Like, you can become a Canadian if you're from somewhere else by integrating. You can't do the same if you marry into a native community and learn the language and become a member of that community, because the Indian Act won't recognize you. Doesn't make racism right though, which is why she fights it.
Mr. Daynet and I were living in Lasalle at the time, and we remember seeing an army tank drive down Lafleur Street near the Mercier Bridge.
I was living over in Chateauguay at the time, my most indelible memory was video of the convoy of indians getting stoned as they tried to leave the reservation with the police looking on and allowing it to happen.
I remember watching on tv and in some radio stations aired a French-Canadian humorists group named La Jungle who did this politically incorrect compilation jokes about the Oka crisis.
Author Robert Philpot, who jumped the shark and nuked the fridge later when he written a text about Rwanda in 2004 in the Montreal newspaper "Le Devoir", had written a book titled "Oka, dernier alibi du Canada anglais"(approximate translation: Oka, last alibi of English Canada, hasn't been translated in English yet) suggesting then it was an opportunity for English Canada elites to bash Quebec.
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