KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE

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Friday Night Docs by Cinema Politica Fredericton
Friday October 12, 2007
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: Conserver House, 180 St. John St., Fredericton

Canada / 1994 / 120 min

A feature-length, multi-award winning documentary by Native American filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin set in the thick of the armed confrontation between Native American Mohawks and Canadian government forces during the 1990 standoff in the
Mohawk village of Kanehsatake near the village of Oka in Quebec. The two-and-a-half month ordeal received brief national attention when the Mohawk warriors of Kahnawake, in support of their brothers from nearby Kanehsatake, temporarily held the busy Mercier Bridge leading to Montreal, in an effort
to bring world attention to the situation.

Directed by Alanis Obomsawin.

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