Mohawk land dispute unresolved three decades after Siege of Kanehsatake – APTN News

Jul 11, 2020

There’s nothing unique about the first car that slowly crests the hill leading from Kanehsatake to Oka.

But then it’s followed closely by another. Then another.

This convoy, over 100 vehicles long, is rolling along highway 344.

Warrior and Haudenosaunee flags, soggy from the rain, struggle to catch any wind. Slow and steady, the convoy pushes forward, mostly silent save for the soft swish of tires on wet pavement. This is not a celebration, but a commemoration.

They roll past the site where the shootout with Quebec provincial police on July 11, 1990 left Cpl. Marcel Lemay dead.

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