Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)

Directors

Alanis Obomsawin

Cast

Alanis Obomsawin

The story

Obomsawin's film, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, documents the boiling point of Indigenous land possession battles of the last 270 years. The conflict arises when the Quebec government announces to expand the golf course it had previously built on Mohawk land. The expansion would destroy the sacred burial ground located in their land of "The Pines".

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