In Defense of Mohawk Land

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In Defense of Mohawk Land
Ethnopolitical Conflict in Native North America

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Linda Pertusati - Author

SUNY series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life

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Hardcover - 166 pages

Release Date: April 1997

ISBN10: 0-7914-3211-4
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3211-2

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 166 pages

Release Date: April 1997

ISBN10: 0-7914-3212-2
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-3212-9

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Summary

Examines the conflict that exists between the Mohawk Warrior Movement and Canada within the context of the Mohawk nation's struggle for national self-determination.

During 1990, a land dispute between the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatake and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada took center stage in the world community, erupting into months of intense and often violent confrontation. Rooted in the historical reality of past injustices, the events of the 1990 Mohawk-Oka conflict epitomized the relationship and struggles which exists between Aboriginal nations, ethnonationalist movements, and the state.

By examining the Mohawk-Oka conflict, this book tells a story of struggle and survival during the 1990 invasion by the Quebec provincial police and Canadian army into Mohawk sovereign land. The story is one of an embattled nation's struggle and aboriginal right to determine its political and economic destiny. Through extensive research of archived documents, newspapers, and interviews with leaders and members of the Mohawk Warrior Movement and other central figures in the Mohawk nation, the author demonstrates how politicized ethnicity and ideology can become significant factors in the repertoire of indigenous ethno-nationalist social movements for generating and maintaining social protest.

"The events described are dramatic (and tragic) and the account is compelling. The detailed exposition effectively conveys the ambivalences, ambiguities, and other complexities behind the public events. This is a story that deserves to be heard, and the analysis is insightful and persuasive." -- Robin M. Williams, Jr., Cornell University

Linda Pertusati is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Aboriginal-State Relations

2. The Framing of Politicized Ethnicity and Nationalism

3. Nations at War: History in Perspective

4. Culture, Ideology, and Organizational Formation: The Rise of the Mohawk Warrior Movement

5. The Mobilization of Mohawk Warrior Militancy

6. Nations at War: Voice, Peaceful Resistance, and Mobilization

7. Nations at War: Voice, Armed Resistance, and Maintenance of Mobilization

8. Politicized Ethnicity and Nationalism: Conclusions

Appendix: Persons Interviewed

References

Index

Related Subjects

Ethnicity
Indigenous Studies
Social Movements

32354/32355(ZL//FK)

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