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	Fact Sheet - Kanesatake - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Government of Canada acquired approximately 12,335 square meters of land in the area known as "The Pines." It was this burial ground that lay at the heart of the unfortunate events of 1990.
		The Mohawk community of Kanesatake is located on the north shore of the Lac des Deux Montagnes, where it meets the Ottawa River, 53 km west of Montreal.
		The Government of Canada acquires approximately 12,335 square meters of land in the area known as "The Pines." It was this burial ground that lay at the heart of the events of 1990.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /nr/prs/m-a2000/00146_fsa_e.html (1616 words)

	Bill S-24: The Kanesatake Interim Land Base Governance Act (LS-399E) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The legislation ratifies the Agreement with Respect to Kanesatake Governance of the Interim Land Base between the federal government and the Mohawks of Kanesatake(1) that was concluded on 21 June 2000and signed on 21 December 2000.
		The uncertain status of Kanesatake lands was underscored in a 1998 decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal ruling that municipal zoning and construction by-laws applied to at least the Mohawk properties at issue which were not, in the Court’s view, “public property.”(21)
		Clause 2(1) defines “Kanesatake Mohawk neighbouring lands” (neighbouring lands) as lands located in the sectors of Schedule B of the Agreement, in the area known as the “Village of Oka”(32) (Schedule C of the Agreement relating to harmonization defines these as “adjacent lands”).
	www.parl.gc.ca /common/bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=s24&source=library_prb&Parl=37&Ses=1 (5536 words)

	PEACE PARTY -- Stereotype of the Month contest
		Kanesatake Grand Chief James Gabriel, who was forced out of the settlement in January when his house was torched by dissidents, said he was insulted by the minister's comments.
		Kanesatake was the scene of a 1990 land-claims standoff in which armed warriors confronted provincial police and an officer was shot and killed.
		QUEBEC CITY -- Public security minister Jacques Chagnon is coming under fire for remarks he made about the Kanesatake Mohawks, saying that people on the territory are much more violent than the rest of Quebec.
	www.bluecorncomics.com /stype45d.htm (1523 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Indians, angry at crackdown, besiege tribal police headquarters in Quebec
		Quebec and Canadian federal authorities appeared unwilling last night to send riot squads to end the showdown between militants and tribal authorities, despite appeals from the newly appointed tribal police chief, Terry Isaac, who was trapped with more than 50 other aboriginal police officers inside the station without food and other necessities.
		The Kanesatake Mohawks are also believed to be a source of marijuana sold by the Hells Angels and other biker gangs that run Quebec's illicit drug trade.
		A Quebec highway near Oka was closed by trees felled by angry Mohawk protesters, who also built a barricade of blazing logs outside the police barracks, hurling rocks and debris at police seeking to flee the brick structure.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/01/14/indians_angry_at_crackdown_besiege_tribal_police_headquarters_in_quebec (824 words)

	CNW Telbec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		KANESATAKE, March 24 /CNW Telbec/ - The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake announces a number of developments relating to the general elections that had been scheduled to take place on March 19, 2005, but that were recently postponed.
		Poitras concluded that the security measures in place and to be put in place in Kanesatake would in fact guarantee that the Principles and Criteria for free and democratic elections would be met in the relevant period leading up to and in the course of the advance poll and elections.
		The Kanesatake Mohawk Council has declared that the general elections are to be fixed on a date to be determined by the new Independent Election Consultants when they are satisfied that the elections may proceed without further postponement.
	www.cnw.ca /en/releases/archive/March2005/24/c8470.html?view=print (554 words)

	Gangs
		KANESATAKE, Quebec -- The crime-scene tape surrounding the charred ruins of Grand Chief James Gabriel's home snapped and shredded in the frigid wind whipping off Lake of Two Mountains.
		Kanesatake abuts the Quebec town of Oka, scene in 1990 of a violent 78-day standoff between the Canadian military and Mohawk militants protesting plans to expand a golf course by bulldozing land that Indians said held an ancestral graveyard.
		Kanesatake residents and federal police say marijuana is cultivated openly in clearings during summer months in year-round indoor hydroponic operations.
	www.policeone.com /gangs/articles/78182 (1088 words)

	Recomnetwork \| Province sends mediator to Kanesatake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		QUEBEC CITY - The Quebec government has appointed an independent negotiator to help broker a deal between the community of Kanesatake and ousted grand chief James Gabriel.
		The Quebec government says it wants to ensure Gabriel's safe return to his community, and native affairs minister Benoit Pelletier said that the appointment of mediator Jean Bazin will help improve communication between Gabriel and the people of Kanesetake.
		John Harding, one of three chiefs on the Mohawk council opposed to Gabriel, said the appointment of Bazin is undemocratic.
	www.recomnetwork.org /articles/04/01/30/0229225.shtml (378 words)

	Sympatico.ca - News
		Tensions are rising again in Kanesatake, Quebec, as four police cars were set on fire in an early Friday morning blaze.
		In 1990 a dispute between Kanesatake's residents, and the nearby town of Oka over the expansion of a golf course, attracted national attention.
		One police officer died in the standoff and the army was eventually called in to resolve the conflict.
	sympatico.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1085762050925_81171250?hub=canada (364 words)

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		Speaking to reporters at a news conference in Laval, Quebec, Chagnon said that under the tentative deal, the 60 officers brought into the Kanesatake reserve from native communities across the province by Grand Chief James Gabriel would be asked to withdraw.
		About 30 Kanesatake band members, angry that their former police chief had been fired and outsiders brought in, began a protest.
		He has discussed hiring outside police officers from the Surete du Quebec and the RCMP to sweep in and shut down the large number of cigarette vending operations on the reserve.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20040113/oka_violence_040113/CTVNewsAt11 (843 words)

	Ottawa, Quebec prepared to fight organized crime on reserves @ workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Quebec government announced yesterday a joint police squad will target organized crime in Kanesatake, which is located less than an hour outside Montreal and was the scene of a historic confrontation between police and natives in 1990, and the nearby Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake.
		Kanesatake, a community of about 1,400 people, was in the national spotlight again last week as bat-wielding protesters surrounded the police station and the house of Grand Chief James Gabriel went up in flames along with his car.
		Kanesatake's residents have been divided over policing and crime.
	francais.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/qprinter/20040120/OKA20 (680 words)

	Initialling of the Land Governance Agreement, Kanesatake, Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		By recognizing the Kanesatake land base, we are ending the uncertainty over the application of laws in Kanesatake and enabling Kanesatake to govern its interim land base.
		The "Land Governance Code" that the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake is adopting in parallel with the Agreement will ensure that the authority granted by the LGA will be used responsibly and with full accountability.
		For the people of Oka and Kanesatake, this Agreement will establish a clear legal and political framework for the settlement of land-use and economic development issues for the benefit of all residents.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /nr/spch/2000/kane_e.html (1047 words)

	AANREV17-e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She is a Mohawk community member of the Bear Clan, born, raised, and living on the Kanesatake Mohawk territory in Kanesatake, Quebec.
		Kanesatake still has the highest unemployment rate compared to other communities, and the number of people on welfare is growing.
		The Kanesatake land management agreement of the Mohawk community, that was ratified by the Mohawk people, sets out the legal context surrounding the use of lands in the vicinity of the village of Oka.
	www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/1/AANR/Meetings/Evidence/aanrev17-e.htm (18252 words)

	Canadian Colonialism continues \| WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net
		Kanesatake Quebec has been the site of an on-going conflict between the Canadian government and its law enforcement, and the Mohawk community of Kanesatake.
		The women of Kanesatake do not except the governments decision, Canada has no authority to extend James's mandate whether it be in law or in fact.
		Let this be known to all who have come forth in support of James Gabriel, Kanesatake made it clear that he is not wanted, we will not except his substandard policing and we will never except the governments attempts to instil its dictatorship on the Mohawk's of Kanesatake.
	www.whrnet.org /i/node/34 (777 words)

	CBC News: Mohawk chief vows to return, fight crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		QUEBEC CITY - Kanesatake grand chief James Gabriel says he'll return to his Mohawk community to continue the fight against organized crime.
		Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Chagnon struck a deal Wednesday morning that allowed the officers to leave the station, an agreement Gabriel denounced as a betrayal.
		Pelletier recognizes that we are the legal governing body of Kanesatake," he said of himself and three chiefs loyal to him who have abandoned their council duties.
	www.cbc.ca /story/news/national/2004/01/17/kanesatake040117.html (928 words)

	Jay Hill, MP
		But in the real world … in Kanesatake, Quebec, Canada, just last week, the 'bad guys' were allowed to continue on with their drug production, smuggling and money laundering while Grand Chief James Gabriel and the native police force he hired to enforce the law were run out of town.
		And the Government of Quebec and the Government of Canada stood by and did almost nothing for fear they'll be drawn into a nasty political and racially-charged battle.
		It's an insult to the residents in Kanesatake who elected a chief to rid the community of organized crime and drugs the proper way … through law enforcement.
	www.jayhillmp.com /news/weekcol/2004/Jan212004.htm (508 words)

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		On February 14, the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake passed a resolution to protect their traditional territory from a niobium mine that will affect their waters and lands.
		The requests to the Quebec and federal governments state that "the Mohawk Council will continue to oppose this project through all means available to us".
		Then the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake entered the fray, hired their own lawyers and consultants, and are opposing the mine in court, in an appeal of a decision by the Commission for the Protection of Agricultural Territory of Québec (CPTAQ) to allow the mine to proceed.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/action19.htm (916 words)

	Oka Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The town planned to build a golf course over a burial ground near the Mohawk town of Kanesatake, resulting in the Mohawks blockading a road.
		In an initial confrontation between the Quebec Provincial Police and the Mohawks, a police officer was killed.
		Other Mohawks at Kahnawake in solidarity with Kanesatake blockaded the Mercier Bridge between the island of Montreal and the South Shore suburbs.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/car-insurance-saab-car-insurance.html (160 words)

	Uprising in Kanesatake - media analysis : Thunderbay IMC
		The new 67 officer police force was federally subsidized to the tune of $900,000 for November 2003 to June 2004.
		Kanesatake (pop.1200) is a rare native community; it does not have federally recognized title to its land, it is not recognized as a reserve under the Indian Act and it did not have a native police force until 1997.
		In a cigarette dispute in August1994 the Army, Joint Task Force 2 (J2F2), the RCMP and the Quebec Provincial Police planned to send a force of 18,000 into the border community of Akwesasne Ontario by helicopter gunship, rail, armoured personnel carriers and by securing the roads.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /news/2004/01/11307.php (1360 words)

	Eastern Door Volume 3 Number 19
		Kanesatake Chief Jerry Peltier, is "outraged at David Cliche, for speaking about matters which are under the responsibility of the Minister of Public Security of Quebec." Peltier also issued a response to Cliche's demand for the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake to take action to stop the terrorism in Kanesatake.
		Past newspaper reports say that residents of both Kanesatake and Oka are tired of the bunch of delinquents speeding in automobiles or shooting machine guns and having the police do nothing about the dangerous situation which they are living in.
		Kanesatake, which presently finds itself in a jurisdictional dispute with Quebec, is itself without the tools to deal with this issue.
	www.easterndoor.com /archives/VOL.3/3-19.htm (2977 words)

	CNW Telbec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It imposes clearer accountability requirements on Kanesatake and auditing provisions for the funding that the police force receives from Canada and Quebec.
		The people who are preventing our police officers entering the Kanesatake Territory are restricting the freedom of our community members, jeopardizing their safety and compromising their well being.
		Norton stated that "All sides must be reminded that it is only when people lose the vision of creating solutions that violence is allowed to occur." I have not lost sight for a moment of the vision that I have for my community as a stable, progressive, civil and free society.
	www.cnw.ca /en/releases/archive/May2004/07/c0631.html?view=print (769 words)

	Welcome to MCK news on Kanesatake.com
		It is replaced by the Kanesatake Mohawk Public Security Commission which has a clearer mandate.
		Since these persons are dealing directly and on a daily basis with the social issues affecting their Community, they will be in the best position to determine the level of involvement required and select suitable police officers.
		The approval of the Tripartite Police Agreement is the result of a long negotiation process involving the negotiators for the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake, Canada and Québec.
	www.kanesatake.com /news/en/newsletters/29032004.html (442 words)

	Kanesatake Quebec Canada Process Servers -- ServeNow.com.
		The Kanesatake Quebec process servers on ServeNow.com offer a number of services related to civil procedure and service of process aside from just legal document delivery in Kanesatake.
		Kanesatake Process Servers make daily trips to County Courts, Quebec County Clerks, Kanesatake Municipal Courts, Kanesatake Criminal Courts, Quebec Supreme Courts and Quebec Courts of Appeals.
		Service of process is the delivery of these Quebec legal documents such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, orders to show cause, writs and other court documents.
	www.serve-now.com /process-serving/Quebec/Kanesatake (372 words)

	Janice G.A.E. Switlo - www.switlo.com
		The so-called 'Partners in Peacebuilding project' undertake by Patricia Gabel was at the request of Ellen Gabriel and some members of the local Kanesatake Quebec Native Women's Association mostly comprising of sisters, cousins and a very small group of supporters of James Gabriel including his mother, a non- native.
		The Kanesatake community learned that James Gabriel, was allowed to address and sit with the chiefs even though he was no longer the Grand Chief for Kanesatake.
		That is on the formal record in the case of the Mohawks of Kanesatake, and becomes similarly on the record for all others who follow suit.
	switlo.com /opinion.php?selected=61 (3484 words)

	Leap In The Dark: Canadian Politics: Inaction On Native Issues Could Haunt Conservatives
		The most famous of those incidents, the one that still resonates most with people on both sides of the issue, was the standoff in Oka, Quebec.
		The Kanesatake (Pronounced Ga-nes-a-ta-ge: hard g sound) Mohawks had been ceded rights to a stand of pine trees and burial lands by the government of New France in 1717, and were to be held in trust for them by a Catholic Seminary.
		In 1990 when the city council of Oka decided to clear the remaining stand of pine trees in order to expand a private members golf course (of which the mayor was a member) and build luxury condominiums, it was the final insult.
	blogs.epicindia.com /leapinthedark/2006/06/canadian_politics_inaction_on.html (1671 words)

	WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Chagnon struck a deal Wednesday morning, peacefully ending a bitter and violent standoff in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake in Quebec.
		The agreement allowed 60 officers to leave the community's police station where they had been trapped by protesters.
		The officers who had been trapped left Kanesatake shortly after midnight when the officers from the other reserves arrived.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /print.php?sid=2027 (88 words)

	2004-03-31 / New Policing Agreement for Kanesatake
		The Government of Canada, the Province of Quebec, and the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake are working together to improve the public and personal security of residents in the community of Kanesatake.
		Members of the community, including members of the former Kanesatake Mohawk Police Commission, will be invited by the Mohawk Council of Kanesatake to put forward their names for consideration by a Selection Committee comprised of three community members.
		The Quebec Ministry of Public Security will assist in the appointment of up to seven Special Constables under the authority of the Quebec Police Act until the Band Council of Kanesatake appoints permanent officers under the selection process of the new agreement.
	ww2.psepc.gc.ca /publications/news/2004/20040331_e.asp (496 words)

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