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Posted on July 14, 2008 - Total Views 93993
Face Off: Oka Crisis
The Oka Crisis was one of the well-publicized violent conflicts the Canadian government faced against the First nations that began on July 11, 1990 and lasted until September 26, 1990. The immediate cause of the conflict was due to a land dispute between the Mohawk nation and the town of Oka, Quebec, which resulted to one direct and two indirect casualties.
How important is the land you stand on? For some, a piece of land means a highly profitable investment, but for the Mohawk Nation, their land is not just a piece of soil, but a legacy passed to them by their ancestors. And this was something they had to fight for even it had to cost their lives. During the conflict, Mohawk Warriors set up barricades around the town of Oka, and a series of confrontations between the Mohawk Nation and the Sûretè de Quebec that often led to violent face offs.
The Oka Crisis ended on September 26, 1990, almost a month after the Mohawk Warriors negotiated an end to their protest. The proposed expansion of the golf course was eventually cancelled.
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August 25th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
year, 1990
date, most likely july 11 or close to.
great to see some photos have dates of when they were taken long ago, while a great stand against the government is unnoticed… cant destroy a white mans grave to put a parking lot, but you can sure do it to natives…its a shame
August 25th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Oh please. What a load of bull. White men’s graves are moved everyday for buildings and parking lots. Believe it or not, white men are discriminated against daily too. Give me a break…
August 25th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
By the way, I am Shawnee. Stop being a victim.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Troy–yeah I bet your are 1/16th Shawnee and Cherokee too, just like every other white person out there.
Give me a break. Poor poor white men so discriminated against.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Your both acting as victims. You talked earlier about them moving the graves of the whites, but in the case of many natives they only know a general location and that entire area is sacred. How would you feel if someone tore down, say your local church, or mosque or whatever? Wouldn’t you want to protect it?
August 26th, 2008 at 10:25 am
you should be ashamed. who honestly cares if your white or native american or what, your still a ******* person, we’re all discriminated against one way or another, and we cant help what our governments do. so shut the **** up and get along you immature whiney little pussies.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Whites mens graves are moved, what about our homes, our children taken away from us to go to schools where they were molested and beaten by us, i hardly think our graves being moved should justify the actions we took against them. First we come to their land, their homes, they teach us how to survivor, how to live in such conditions. Than we force our religion on them, and what once was a land of 7 peaceful nations is now in war. And than we try to kill them off, by killing their source of food and respect for the land, So **** our graves being moved for parking lots, and **** the people who can think that justifies 200 years of evil from the white men.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
We CAN help what our governments do Steve. Atrocities by governments are only allowed by apathetic constituencies.
We should hold ourselves accountable for everything that our governments do.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
I dunno, its certainly not simple, many native groups in ontario and quebec are displaced american tribes who received the land from the canadian/british gov. after siding against the yankee’s in the war of 1812, not many native groups have long (undisputed by other tribes) claims on land, do to the constant waring between tribes that caused endless shifting of tribal boundaries. Natives certainly weren’t peaceful or harmless, they were just as violent and cruel as any other human being, they just weren’t as well organized, unfortunately for them I suppose. well, food for thought…
August 26th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
The nickname of the guy with the sunglasses was “Lasagna”. Really.
Max
Quebec City
August 26th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
“…even it had to cost their lives.”
As far as I remember, only one man lost his life during that conflict. He was a cop that accidentally shot himself.
Max, again
August 27th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Later than July 11…the army weren’t called in until August 14. That’s not Lasagna in the photo, it is Brad “Freddy Krueger” Larocque and Pte. Patrick Cloutier of the Van Doos.
The cop who died was a Coporal Lemay and I think there was never conclusive proof as to what happened to him, although I remember at the time of the inquest that there was testimony to the fact that calibre of the bullet that killed him was inconsistent with any of the weapons the Mohawks had. Plus he was shot from behind while taking a position against the Mohawks.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
say it to every indigenous american whose holy lands and homeland is now nothing but strip-malls ,wal-marts and taco bell.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
say it to every indigenous american whose holy lands and homeland is now nothing but strip-malls ,wal-marts and taco bells.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Shit they have casinos, they’ll live.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I was on the site a week during the conflict and I never fear to be shot. It looks like an army conflict when you look at the pictures but it wasn’t. The army was there because the canadian police has no power on that kind of situation. The mohawks was more armed than the police so, just for security, the army came…
August 27th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
It’s always sad to see natural habitats cleared away to let “civilisation” grow and progress. The natives claimed that the proposed golf course would require ancient trees to be cut down on their ancestral land, and they didn’t approve.
If I remember correctly, about one or two years later, those ancient sacred trees were actually cut down… BY THE NATIVES THEMSELVES… to make room for a casino or some other piece of crap like it.
And all of that cost a lot of my tax money to buy their peace, all of that for nothing, since they cut the trees anyhoo.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
The battle b/w Natives and “non-natives” in Canada is an ongoing thing. What pisses me off is how throughout the world, colonization/imperialism has been an action throughout history. The fact that Europeans colonized North America is just part of life.
I would love to see Natives educate the country more about their lifestyles but it just doesn’t work that way. For the most part, however NOT ALL, Natives get their gov’t benefits, cash in cheques that the gov’t sends them to keep them happy, and head to the closest liquor stores and they spend it all. Their education is free, they get so many benefits, and yet, most Natives that I have met are not educated or hard working.
I understand that “this was their land first” but almost everyone has some unfair treatment in their ancestral history - it’s just a matter on if you dwell on it or not.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Ya, the “whites” took away there culture, threw them in residential schools, suppressed their language and religion. I’m “white”. What that really means to me (not that anybody cares what the original nationality of a white person is, we just have to check off “caucasion”), is that I’m Irish, Scottish, Danish, Polish, Ukranian, and a little farther back, German, Jewish, Austrian, French. My ancestor’s came to Canada because they were facing the same kind of discrimination and brutality that the Natives in North America had to deal with long before my family did.
Some of my people came over because of the Irish potatoe famine, in Poland they were persecuted by the Catholic Church. And some started out in America, where they sought freedom to practice their own religion and for self determination.
In the generation before me, my Dad even, tells stories about how he was discriminated against, denied jobs, beaten up in school, because of his Polish name.
Nowadays, I don’t have to worry about that. Except that I’m a woman, and I deal with the reactions to that every day.
So I guess I just don’t like it when anyone says, the whites persecute them. As if that word is all encompassing. As if it means that something that some group of people did to them a long time ago, directly points to me, and my ancestors. That is a very virulent form of racism in our country today, and it doesn’t contribute to peace and understanding.
Forgive, understand, and be on guard, because there will always be people to hurt you.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I’m ***, so I can’t help leaving stupid comments.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Byzantium, i never said that it was immigrants fault,you act as if you’ve been violated, I’am white too left Germany because my family was Jewish in WW2 I’am saying we should give them respect for their land claims because after all, the English and the French really fucked them over, why would i care about a polish immigrant that came over, if i did id be mad at every white person in this country, but iam not, i just think its terrible how we treat them (we, as in our government)
August 28th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Maybe whites should stop trying to take over / police the world then?
August 29th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Haha, puny men comperin’ der inch gunz…me likey….not one bit! RRRRraaarrghhhh! MasH! Mash! maSH’em! ALL!
August 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
It’s easier to be offended or play the victim than to understand what is said or what is done.
August 30th, 2008 at 9:34 am
face off. darn that’s a ******* wild ride movie.
August 30th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
You just made a mistake. It’s not “Sûreté de Québec” but “Sûreté du Québec”.
“de Québec” would means that you’re talking about the city, but if you say “du Québec”, that means THE Québec.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Canada’s racist ill treatment of its native and aboriginal peoples is worse than the treatment of blacks in SA under apartheid.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I heard that the solider in the photo got a porno gig from this photo. True story.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
rob the american……the whole slavery/segregation/lynching thing was just blown way out of proportion huh????…..sheesh, blacks would flee your country to come to ours and we’re south africa….take your white hood off and stick it where the sun don’t shine….
August 31st, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I dont understand whos who in this pic…any insight?
August 31st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
samuel l jackson to the right, matt damon to the left.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
[...] Face off - Oka Crisis [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
The horribly mutilated Big Chief Dirty Butt of the No Wipe Em tribe finally confesses his unnatural love to Chicken Neck Jones, they have become the inspiration for many ….
September 1st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I am happy to see people stand for their rights.
also:
31# Tor Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 10:39 pm
samuel l jackson to the right, matt damon to the left.
Tor is quite funny.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
This was taken before the Canadian army instated the Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Policy for Albinos.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Stick against the corporate interests!
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
a note to “robert the american”, you are in no position to lecture us here in canada about racism, our economy was not founded on slavery, we don’t execute mentally ill juveniles and my kids have never been near a drive by shooting, one last item, we never put a bounty on our natives and yes we do have a history of ill treatment toward our first residents, but we did not kill them off for sport like you did….americans have a bad habit of commenting about things they know nothing about, like freedom and democracy
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
everybody knows canada was the first slave country in america, st love guy, its cuz they were frenchies.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
So called ‘natives’ are the worst rapist of the environment when the courts let them.
They are all coddled welfare cheats.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I wonder if the Mohawks originally came from Asia?
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
If he is so proud of his land an heritage was does he cover his face.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
The photographer, whose name is missing, is Shaney Komulainen. I went to high school with her. She was in a horrendous car crash some time after the photo was published, but has since recovered.
September 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am
one man is not afraid to show his face.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
koko no scared of bad mans!!
September 6th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
why did they not kill one another and do us all a favor?
September 7th, 2008 at 3:37 am
moshte aval hezar
I don’t know what you say!
September 8th, 2008 at 8:09 am
sad and funny side note: that soldier has been given hero status by the media at the time. a few years later he ended up playing himself in a porn film
yeap, that’s how so called heros end up overhere, north of the border
September 8th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
he should move to America
September 17th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Stop crying over racism, idiots. Everyone is discriminated one way or another, and just so you don’t forget it, the history of the world is a vast collection of stories about people conquering other people’s lands, so just quit it.
September 20th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Everyone’s at least 1/16 Shawnee or Cherokee, idiots, how else can we get into college?
(Joke people, don’t flip the **** out)
September 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Who gives a **** about some dead persons grave? Living people lose their homes in the U.S. every day through imminent domain so a curve in the highway can be made a little straighter so tourists can blast through at 60 miles an hour and not have to slow to fifty for the corner. (And don’t say I’m exaggerating I lost my home and land so a highway could be made straighter) They lose their homes so a city can give the land to wall-mart If I had the choice between giving up the grave yard or my home ******* sorry grandma and grandpa but this is my home!
September 25th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
why doesnt anyone help the elephant man?
September 27th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
A great shame on Canada. A conservative government was in power at the time of course.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Tired of these people and their tedious culture. They enjoy a standard of living their ancestors could never have dreamed of, courtesy of the people they criticise for taking over ‘their’ lands. My advice would be to not bother talking to them and just open fire instead. Nobody is listening you ******* bores. It’s 2008.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
canada will burn in hell too!
October 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Tor….can i be in ur movie?
October 24th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Lasagna!! i remember meeting him when i was 10!
October 26th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
# Byzantium Says:
August 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Ya, the “whites” took away there culture, threw them in residential schools, suppressed their language and religion.
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People teaching in the residential schools were the only people who actually cared for the Indians, living everything and going to live in the middle of nowhere, often as volunteers. They were teaching the Indians how to adopt to the civilized world, to read and write, to learn some useful trade. And this is not true, that the children were taken away from the families, as a general policy. The schools were formed on voluntary bases on most part, and only children of disfunctional Indian families, where alcoholism and abuse took place, were taken by force.
To accuse those dedicated good people who taught in residential schools as monsters doing outrageous things to their students is injustice crying to high heaven.
The whole victim and survival attitude among Indians is blown up way out of proportions by greedy lawyers, who smelled the leftist wind of political correctness, which hijacked this once great country of Canada, and used it as a great way to make easy money. It is not a secret, that law firms sent their agents to reserves, to hunt for anyone who attended residential school, and to convince him or her, that they were abused, and now are entitled to sue the government and churches.
Your accusation Byzantium, are result of unjust stereotypes being spread by leftist propaganda and greedy lawyers.
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Some of my people came over because of the Irish potatoe famine, in Poland they were persecuted by the Catholic Church.
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That’s another full of crap myth spread this time by some circles of Jews against Poles. It greatly puzzles me why so many of you Jews are so hateful toward us Poles, to the extend, that you blame us for the Holocaust, sometime more even then Germans.
Catholic Church in Poland never prosecuted Jewish people. In fact Poland through centuries was a safe shelterer for millions of Jews fleeing prosecution in other parts of Europe. Of course, because of natural exclusives of Jewish nation and lack of blending with the rest of the community, there where some kind of tensions among the both peoples, but never resulted in any kind of violence. The oppression on Jews in Poland brought Germans with the beginning of World War II. It is true that some Polish low lives, who are present in all nations, cheated Jews, taking from them money as a payment for hiding and denouncing them to Gestapo instead. However there were also many Jews, who welcomed invading Poland communist Russians, at the same time from the East, and denouncing hiding Poles to them. Many of Jews were members of NKWD and tortured and killed Poles during and long after war. So, you are not blameless either.
And also it is true, that during late 60ties, Polish Communist Party, in which were many Jews, had some kind of internal fight among its fractions, and as a result adopted antisemitic policy, extended not only to party members, but to ordinary citizens. At that time many Jews were expelled from Poland, but this had nothing to do with the Catholic Church.
The claim that Church persecuted Jews is either ignorance or deliberate lie, who knows for what hateful reason being spread.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I’m 100% a Cleveland Indians fan. GO TRIBE WE ARE GOING TO WIN THE SERIES IN 09 AW wa wa wa Aw wa wa wa Aw wa wa wa
October 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
There are many Native problems here in Canada.
I wish they were resolved!
Im white-but i support our Natives.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Ok.
Black Men : We’re sorry our ancestors needed some help, lazy ********, and found your race to serve them. We are sorry, please don’t hold it against us.
Indians : We’re sorry our ancestors needed a place to stay and couldn’t ‘buck it up’ in Canada. Seriously, it’s a nice piece of land, but we shouldn’t have been so overly aggressive. We are sorry, please don’t hold it against us.
All Other Races: White men and women have pissed off various races over the years, but can you seriously hold all whites accountable for what was done years ago? No. You can and should beat the shit out anyone who shows that kind of negativity now a days.
My 2 cents anyways….
October 31st, 2008 at 10:10 pm
get over your history and actually start changing how you act towards other races.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Although there is not a lot of blatant racism towards First Nations (at least in the media and popular culture), ignoring the birth rights of an entire people and the wrongs done to them in the past, is just as bad. Sweeping issues under the rug with the excuse that it happened long ago, and that we are not the same people that perpetrated this home invasion, is unacceptable.
I hope more young Canadians in the future will see the benefit of educating themselves about the issues of our country concerning First Nations, because that’s how the issues should be seen. Not as the business of First Nations people alone, but as a national issue that should concern everyone in the country.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
that “brave” soldier on the left was actually later arrested on drug charges… nice
November 5th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
you guys are all annoying. everyone feels different about what they feel is worth standing up for. if you think graves are most important, then stand up for it. if you think your religion matters most go for it, you think facts matter, learn them.
everyone needs to stop being so judgmental and pathetic. i’m sure we all stand up for what we love.
by the way. Everyone have a good day. 83
November 5th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
………yawn……why r u people being such pussies for crissake. the oka crisis was over like 20 years ago. im only here for a project in school and all i see are whiners whining about black, white, american canadian etc etc…get over it the world is like that u either accept it or live like a ***** all ur life
November 5th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
why dont they give them blankets infested with disease? worked for us!
November 5th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
NO GUYS, IT’S AMERICAS FAULT. BLABBITY BLAH BLAH.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
they were in love.
November 6th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
the guy before me is a ******.
November 9th, 2008 at 4:46 am
OMG! canadians and violence? Who’d a thunk it. :] Jk, but really, I feel ya man. I know it could never happen, but even though I really wouldn’t have any heritage and therefore would have no place to go, I think all cultures should be given back their motherlands. Its silly and naive, yes, but I mean America truly belongs to…well, the Native Americans, and they lost a great heritage and many great nations when the filthy Europeans came and stole everything from them, except for alcoholism and smallpox.
FTR, I’m Cajun-er…redneck? Irish/English most likley. So like Cajun/English/Irish.
I don’t really know why I’m so passionate about that, but I’ll shut up now. :]] {offtopic.:[}
November 9th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Hate to say it but i live in South ON. and they only lay claim to property that has value - no one claims the vast miles of woodland - only the condo developments and beach front properties- go figure- any one else took over land by force with weapons it would be a different story.
November 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Pawel Says:
October 26th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
# Byzantium Says:
August 27th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Ya, the “whites” took away there culture, threw them in residential schools, suppressed their language and religion.
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People teaching in the residential schools were the only people who actually cared for the Indians, living everything and going to live in the middle of nowhere, often as volunteers. They were teaching the Indians how to adopt to the civilized world, to read and write, to learn some useful trade. And this is not true, that the children were taken away from the families, as a general policy. The schools were formed on voluntary bases on most part, and only children of disfunctional Indian families, where alcoholism and abuse took place, were taken by force.
To accuse those dedicated good people who taught in residential schools as monsters doing outrageous things to their students is injustice crying to high heaven.
The whole victim and survival attitude among Indians is blown up way out of proportions by greedy lawyers, who smelled the leftist wind of political correctness, which hijacked this once great country of Canada, and used it as a great way to make easy money. It is not a secret, that law firms sent their agents to reserves, to hunt for anyone who attended residential school, and to convince him or her, that they were abused, and now are entitled to sue the government and churches.
Your accusation Byzantium, are result of unjust stereotypes being spread by leftist propaganda and greedy lawyers.
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You actually might want to do some real work and learn the real facts before you start spouting off the “facts” you saw on some YouTube video.
Have you actually ever heard the stories?
I remember stories my grandparents telling about getting punished for having his hair too long or speaking our language. My family was not abusive or alcoholics, that was the standard indian schools that were available, not the orphanges where they abducted kids.
Oh and just for the record, I do not get everything handed to me, I get no royalties from casino money, there are only a handful of tribes that make enough to give money out to the nation. Most the others try to use the money to help run the under-funded tribal orphages, scholarships, schools, etc. I barely got $1000 a semester for college and only got $600 a few semesters. Barely covers the price of engineering books.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
no one wants to read more than a few lines dipshitz,
and why dont you quit whining and get a friggin job like an american would. Stupid gut eaters, salmon crunchers and other so called red men just want a free ride, go back to china where you come from, see how long they let you live off welfare and booze over there!
November 14th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
umm, 130yrs ago there was a war…they lost.
go cry in yr firewater
November 14th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
ats tellin em! wasnt for us theyd have no sewage disposal nor pot to cook in, nor cures for disease. theyd be livin in dark huts
November 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Man you people… all of u grow up… the world does not go around America or Indians or who ever…. no one has it perfect.. come to Europe and you shall see how much hatred there is towards people of the same culture blood or back round, learn from us… we have done all this… and if u want to be better then the rest of us then grow some balls … and show that ur better…. shame….
November 18th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Robert the American : yeah, it’s a shame how we treat Canadian Indians… But we didn’t kill’em all like yours
November 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Troy, sadly you are seriously uneducated. You should not speak of what you do not understand. I lived the Oka crisis, in the middle of it, my home was not accessible to me, for close to 2 weeks, and from someone who knows and understands what they are taking about, you should go crawl under a rock and stay there for being so naive!
November 19th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
To robert saint amour: If you want to compare the United States and Canada you should get your history right first. Canada most certainly did place bounties on Native Americans and killed them for sport, read up on how the Beothuk were completely wiped out in Newfoundland. The first use of the Gatling Gun was to wipe out Metis settlements out West. Oppression is awful everywhere so I suggest you don’t proclaim your own innocence if you don’t know your history.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I’ll have to say i’m for the Mohawks.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
indian mans are bad, they go home to china be drunk.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Those arent indians stupid fake poopoo
November 20th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
americans great people, very jolly and generous too, they teach me to say engrish after only few times .
November 22nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
If everyone who replied to this pic died suddenly, without offspring…on balance, the world would be better off.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
@apocbob…yes, you dont even leave a ripple.
December 14th, 2008 at 2:16 am
bowels movem teepee full of shit.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:53 am
sometimes you can just sit and have a smoke and things work themselves out, reckon this was one a them times, time for a Marlboro break….
December 20th, 2008 at 12:07 am
the cop deserved what he had coming . sometimes a sacrifice has to come out of something to a so called exposure for a grandier thing as to give lack of credibilty for a justification for their aggression upon our first nation warriors. They (s.q) shot their own cop in order to expose to mediatize who was who , so to sort of give themselves a they were right while we were wrong. But in the end the fighting is still happening yet only under strick democratic dictatorship hidden to the eyes of the public and to those who are still stuck in illusion of the consumer society we live in today. let’s not forget That hitler had to be exposed in order for the new wrld order to justly hide their true value to the war as to pick-up on the german function and ways of doing the S.S today the S.S is still alive in form of Social Society. Come on wake up people…………Meegwetch
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
The army dude did a porn later.
If you like good stinky cheese, try Oka cheese.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:08 am
I only wish I had the benefits Native Indians have in Canada
No tax, free housing, free education …and still not happy … what else is new?
December 24th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’m half native and half english. I don’t hate all “white” people just because a priest beat my mother. I hate the individual. I’m reading a shit load of comments on here, and I’m kind of disappointed. You’ve seen this one photo, and you make racist and hateful remarks.
Move to a northern reserve and see what it’s like. The infrastructure is weak. Housing is limited because the power stations and water pumping stations can’t support it. Three to four families in one house. Now that’s living the life! Canada is third world up there. But all you can complain about is that we have tax benefits. We have to be approved by the government to have our education funded. I wasn’t approved so I’ve paid for my tuition on my own (twice).
Natives are stuck between tradition (living on the reserve) and melting away into society (living off the reserve). If you’re a religious person, would you give up your faith to live a better life? You’re not making the situation any better. I just hope that you are a minority in this country.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
The best thing I saw on T.V.
was that S.Q. (Securite` d`Quebec) cop catching a bullet with his teeth.
Condolences, Madame Canadiana,
but your husband was a f*****g stuck pig.
This song’s not about some romantic account of history.
It’s not about martyrs or mythos, no heroes in burnings of effigy.
It’s about a native girl flippling her lid just to try to keep some self respect in tact.
It’s about an Oka the size of a fist held in resistance and her will to fight back.
And the girls at work, they still deny their racism.
They claim tolerance for all, but it seems the degree of racial slurs is their gauge,
and it defines tolerance as hate.
27 million “girls-at-work” here.
Imagine fighting that for 500 years.
And golly-gee! how valient!
how the white oppressor makes allowance for calculated gestures of insurgence
(all tightly tethered to their purses).
Oka had that orchestration aborted.
Oka f****d their rules to choose a future self-determined and i, for one, support it…
The smartest thing i think i ever said:
“if a Kevin Kostner Kavalry is your means to their end, then the struggle is dead.”
Why do we pretend that our approval is upon what they depend?
December 25th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Why the hell they didn’t just shoot all those indians and shut the whole thing down?
December 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
We can all agree that we gotta thank the natives for teaching us to make popcorn.
December 28th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
its howdy doody time!
December 29th, 2008 at 2:59 am
I have never understood why people insist on saying things like “we oppressed the native americans” . Our forefathers may have committed all kinds of atrocities,but its all in the past now. It’s like saying, ” we discovered electricity” or “we invented the radio”. It isn’t right to assign credit to an entire race for actions committed by someone of that race in the past. That would be like if your grandfather murdered someone and you got convicted of the crime.
December 30th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Why do they want their land back they are NOT using it. Alot of indians don’t work (but complain theyon’t have money even dough they don’t pay taxes nor electricity) they don’t go fishing or hunting as much as they use to. I don’t mind that they want to protect nature it a good thing but they turn around and distroy it themselves!