Reflective Journal

This week I had watched the Documentary Kaneshsatake: 270 Years of Resistance; about the Oka crisis, which was a dispute between land that had belonged to the Mohawk people of Oka, small town of Quebec.  This documentary is the taping of the days in which the Mohawk people had been upset with the people of Oka after planning on opening a golf course on the pine land and burial ground of the Mohawks.  After getting no where talking with people about this matter, they protested by putting up barricades getting into the golf course.  This then lead the government to send in police to make sure things were under control.  This film gives us the insight of what it was like for the Mohawks during this time.  They were treated very poorly, however they were fighting for their land as well. Watching this movie was very eye opening.  Since we are also reading the book, "This is an Honour Song", which is full of many different chapters all about different outlooks of the Oka Crisis, this movie makes me understand much more of what I am reading.