This feature-length documentary follows the events of August 28, 1990, when a convoy of 75 cars left the Mohawk community of Kahnawake during the 1990 Oka Crisis and crossed Montreal's Mercier Bridge—straight into an angry mob that pelted the vehicles with rocks. The targets of this violence were Mohawk women, children, and elders leaving Kahnawake, in fear of a possible advance by the Canadian army.
This film is the fourth in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Mohawk rebellions that shook Canada in 1990.This doc profiles a key element of the 1990 Oka crisis in which the Mohawk communities of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake stood against the Canadian military and Canadian citizens in a stand-off that turned violent.
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