Alanis Obomsawin

In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course on Mohawk lands in Quebec set the stage for a confrontation that grabbed international headlines.

This film examines the Mohawk Resistance at Oka, a crisis that became a pivot point in modern-day relationships between Indigenous nations and Canada.

How the life of a disabled boy initiated a battle for First Nations children to receive the same social services as the rest of Canada's population.