Mohawks protest at Oka development site

OKA — Exactly 27 years and one day after the outbreak of the Oka Crisis, Mohawks gathered Wednesday to halt a residential development they say is encroaching on their sacred pine forest.
A few dozen trees have already been cleared to make way for hydro lines that will power the neighbourhood and more have been marked for destruction. It was the expansion of a golf course into the pines that triggered the 1990 standoff between the Mohawk Warriors and Canadian Forces.
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