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Native America Calling: What we’ve learned in the 35 years since the Mohawk Resistance at Oka
Friday, July 11, 2025
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What we’ve learned in the 35 years since the Mohawk Resistance at Oka
The 78-day armed standoff just outside of Montreal, Quebec, in 1990 is credited with clearing a path for reconciliation between Indigenous tribes and the Canadian federal government.

The country can count a number of initiatives, government resolutions, and task forces that sprouted from the violence 35 years ago. But many of Indigenous people connected to the direct action say any progress since then is slow and insufficient.

Tune in to recount the conflict sparked by a town’s plan to build a golf course and condominiums on sacred Mohawk land and assess the state of awareness for Indigenous issues since then.

Kahnawake in 1990
A demonstration in support of the Mohawk resistance in September 1990. Photo: André Querry

Also, what is the most effective response when public figures make comments that go well past acceptable boundaries? How are they held accountable?

Join the conversation to reflect on a social media post by conservative commentator Ann Coulter that prompted rebuke by hundreds of Native American leaders and individuals.

Guests on Native America Calling
Russ Diabo (Kahnawake Mohawk), policy analyst

Waneek Horn-Miller (Mohawk), Olympian and veteran of the Oka standoff from July 11 through September 26 in 1990

Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi), publisher and editor of Native News Online and Tribal Business News

Anton Treuer (Leech Lake Ojibwe descendant), professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University in Minnesota

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