More serious Mohawk War 1990

The Mohawk Warrior Society is extremely skilled. Many were vets from elite US military units. They were extremely careful to avoid deaths or even injuries if possible. Any escalation would have to come from Canada's govt or more likely, local white vigilantes.
 

MacCaulay

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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.
 
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.

That golf course was their sacred burial ground. Ask a Catholic how they'd feel about the Vatican or Lourdes being turned into a putting green for wealthy old farts. Or imagine if your grandpa's grave became where the US Open could be held, and no one even asked you if it's OK...

The over reaction came entirely from Canada's govt. How hard would it be to ask the town of Oka to build somewhere else? Or even, ya know, ASK FIRST instead of just doing it without consulting anyone?

In the US, the Nat'l Guard wouldn't have been called in at all. The law specifically bans that. It'd be marshalls and FBI, like at Wounded Knee II.
 
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