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Kanesatake

Kanesatake is a Mohawk community on the Ottawa river west of Montreal, in Quebec, next to the town of Oka. It originated in a Sulpician mission founded in the early 18th century, and its people's long dispute over land with the Sulpicians and the town led in 1990 to the Oka crisis, a 78-day armed stand-off over plans to extend a golf course onto a Mohawk burial ground.

Kanesatake
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kanesatake. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kanesatake
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