It was a "civil war," huh? Myself, I always thought it was standoff over a golf course that got blown way out of proportion by some Native Americans.
I guess I'm wondering how it could've escalated to a point where it was worse. I mean, if the police and militia had had to go in and get them out, it would've been bad. JTF2 was on the scene near the end just like their were at Gustafsen Lake, so if the Natives hadn't made that odd "we're coming out of the bushes screaming like banshees but we're actually surrending" thing and it they would've made a stand it would've been...bad.
No contest, the Canadian military is there in the end, but they deal with this stuff differently than the Americans. I remember once where there were First Nations folks out on the roads blocking them to hand out literature. It was basically a known fact that there were guns with them, but they were keeping them out of sight. So the militia got called out to direct traffic around the roadblocks.
That's not how stuff works in America. If the National Guard's getting called out in America, it's to go open the road.