Contemporary Resistance

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Information about the Idle No More Movement is available on the University of Toronto Libraries research guide, Idle No More/Indigenous Movements.

Articles

There Is An Election On, Isn't It Time We Talked? 

By Shawn Atleo, CBCNews, April 13, 2011.

Outlines FN priorities, gives important stats on water, education, in light of recent election. (Intermediate|Senior)

Film & Video

National Day of Action - Native Resistance. YouTube (6:22 min)

Images of the large and peaceful protests on the Native Action day, the day before G20 protests started. Toronto, Ontario.

Oka Crisis - CBC report  YouTube (3:11 mins)

A CBC segment about the Oka crisis features assertions by Mohawk women as well as a standoff between a Mohawk man and a soldier.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance 

National Film Board of Canada, 1993

From the NFB website: "On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Mohawks, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This powerful documentary takes you right into the action of an age-old Aboriginal struggle. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades." (119 min)

Scenes of violence, view discretion is advised. (Senior).