Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

From distinguished Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance captures the story of Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) activists fighting against the local government’s proposed development of a private golf course on sacred burial grounds. Their struggle to protect their land became a historic confrontation—and one of the most widely publicized instances of government-sanctioned violence against First Nations peoples in the 20th century.

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