In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Mohawk lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness.
This moment is documented in the Made Here series premiere of the award-winning 1993 film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, from Indigenous Quebec filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.
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In 2023, Vermont Public's Mary Williams Engisch spoke with director Alanis Obomsawin about her career after she won the Edward MacDowell Medal. You can listen to that interview here.
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance premieres on Vermont Public's PBS station at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 27th, and is available now on demand.
