I tried to go to the barricades, or at least near them. Even in the middle of the crisis, it was clear that something big was happening and that we would hear of it for years to come. Just after aboriginal peoples had played a prominent role in the demise of the Meech Lake accord, Canadians watched the 1990 standoff at Oka and knew that a new political challenge was…
Claude Denis
Claude Denis is a professor at the School of Political Studies and the Institute of Canadian Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of We Are Not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity (Broadview Press, 1997), and of many articles on the relationship between indigenous peoples and Canada.