Cover; Contents; Foreword; Note on the Text; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Event and the Impossibility of Neutrality; Chapter 2: The Siege in Action: Settler Crisis and Indigenous Resistance; Chapter 3: The Disputed Land: Performing Sovereignty; Chapter 4: From the Spectacular to the Documentary-Okanada: Behind the Lines at Oka; Chapter 5: ""A Record We Made Ourselves""-Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance; Chapter 6: Settler Literary Narratives; Chapter 7: Mohawk and Other Indigenous Literary Narratives; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis--or the Kanehsatake Resistance--exposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. ""Stories of Oka: Land, Film, and Literature"" examines the standoff in relation to film and literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous
