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<text id=90TT1976>
<title>
July 30, 1990: World Notes:Canada
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 47
World Notes
CANADA
Mohawk Standoff
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<p> Every night up to 3,000 angry residents of Chateauguay,
Quebec, gathered outside the barricade that Mohawk Indians
raised across the approach to the Mercier Bridge, a major
artery into Montreal. Rowdies grappled with police and burned
effigies of Mohawks hanging from a lamppost. Since a policeman
was killed two weeks ago during an assault on another Mohawk
blockage at Oka, 19 miles to the west, that town and Chateauguay
have become scenes of an edgy standoff over the volatile issue
of Indian land rights. The Indians have been protesting plans
to expand a golf course into a forest that they say contains
a sacred burial ground.
</p>
<p> The problem grew last week as Native leaders across Canada
declared their solidarity with the Mohawks. The chiefs said
they would take their case to the U.N. and called on the world
to impose economic sanctions against Canada to protest its
treatment of Native peoples. The government of Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney balked at negotiating under pressure, but said
it would try to buy the land to transfer to the Natives--once
the barricades came down.
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</body>
</article>
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