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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Evaluation Legend
CM = Conclusions Made
SER = Supported by Explanation, Details, & Research
DUI = Details Used from Image Itself to Support Analysis
ASC = Addresses the Side of History & Criteria (1 of the 6 Studied)
3DUC = 3 Research Details Used to Support Analysis Creatively
WS = Writing Style
KU = DUI
T = SER / CM
COM = WS
APP = DUI / ASC / 3DUC
T = SER / CM
COM = WS
APP = DUI / ASC / 3DUC
Oka Crisis Photo Analysis
Photo Students Must Use For Analysis
Central Question Students Answer in Concluding Analysis
From your chosen historical concept, does this photo accurately represent the Oka Crisis?
Photo Title "Standoff "
Project Details
Timeline
Timeline
March 11, 1990: Kanesatake Mohawks set up blockade. Want to stop town of Oka expanding golf course on land claimed by Indians. Land is part of larger parcel in region claimed by Mohawks.
July 11: Some 100 provincial police officers attack blockade with assault rifles, concussion grenades and tear gas. Cpl. Marcel Lemay, 31, is shot and dies in hospital. Mohawks in Kahnawake near suburban Chateauguay block highways leading to Mercier Bridge in solidarity, threatening to blow it up if there is another assault.
Aug. 12: Provincial police in Chateauguay use tear gas to disperse several hundred people throwing rocks and bottles and demanding Mercier Bridge be re-opened.
Aug. 14: More than 2,500 soldiers and army equipment travel to four locations near Oka and Chateauguay.
Aug. 16: Negotiations involving Mohawks, provincial and federal governments begin while international observers take up places at barricades.
Aug. 17: Canadian Forces announce soldiers and equipment will be sent to replace provincial police at barricades in Oka and Chateauguay.
Aug. 29: Army and Warriors agree to remove barricades blocking roads leading to Mercier Bridge.
Sept. 1: Army advances on Mohawk positions, takes down barricades at Kanesatake.
Sept. 18: Soldiers and Mohawks at Kahnawake brawl with rifle butts, rocks and fists during joint army-provincial police search for hidden weapons. At least 30 people are injured.
Sept. 26: Holdout Mohawks at Kanesatake walk out in defiant surrender to end 78-day standoff.
source -- CBC Radio 1 Unreserved Website
July 11: Some 100 provincial police officers attack blockade with assault rifles, concussion grenades and tear gas. Cpl. Marcel Lemay, 31, is shot and dies in hospital. Mohawks in Kahnawake near suburban Chateauguay block highways leading to Mercier Bridge in solidarity, threatening to blow it up if there is another assault.
Aug. 12: Provincial police in Chateauguay use tear gas to disperse several hundred people throwing rocks and bottles and demanding Mercier Bridge be re-opened.
Aug. 14: More than 2,500 soldiers and army equipment travel to four locations near Oka and Chateauguay.
Aug. 16: Negotiations involving Mohawks, provincial and federal governments begin while international observers take up places at barricades.
Aug. 17: Canadian Forces announce soldiers and equipment will be sent to replace provincial police at barricades in Oka and Chateauguay.
Aug. 29: Army and Warriors agree to remove barricades blocking roads leading to Mercier Bridge.
Sept. 1: Army advances on Mohawk positions, takes down barricades at Kanesatake.
Sept. 18: Soldiers and Mohawks at Kahnawake brawl with rifle butts, rocks and fists during joint army-provincial police search for hidden weapons. At least 30 people are injured.
Sept. 26: Holdout Mohawks at Kanesatake walk out in defiant surrender to end 78-day standoff.
source -- CBC Radio 1 Unreserved Website
Example Research & Writing on the Oka Crisis and Your Historical Concept
Example Research & Writing on the Oka Crisis and Your Historical Concept
EXAMPLE 1 HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE it = iconic photo
Criteria 1 Did it result in change? Does the iconic photo (including its contents) capture serious, long-lasting consequences for
many people?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON IMPACT OF PHOTO ITSELF AND ON IMPACT OF EVENT CAPTURED
IN PHOTO
Criteria 2 Did it reveal something? Does the photo (including its contents) shed light on an historical, long-lasting, or current
issue today?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON IMPACT OF PHOTO ITSELF AND ON IMPACT OF EVENT
CAPTURED IN PHOTO
Criteria 3 What narrative does it belong to? Is the photo connected to a larger, dominant narrative OR an overlooked / trivialized
narrative?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON THE NARRATIVE(S) CAPTURED BY THE PHOTO AND THE
NARRATIVE(S) OVERLOOKED / TRIVIALIZED BY THE PHOTO
EXAMPLE 2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Criteria 1 How are present and past views different? What, if any, difference is there between present views and past views about
what the photo captures or represents?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON ...
Criteria 2 What are the differing perspectives? What are the differing perspectives captured in the photo? What conclusions can
be made from the photo about the differing beliefs, values, and motivations
captured?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON ...
Criteria 3 Is there a danger of committing presentism? Does the photo explain or illustrate perspectives in their proper historical
context? Does the photo invite the viewer to interpret the actions of
people in the past through a current belief system?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON ...
Criteria 1 How are present and past views different? What, if any, difference is there between present views and past views about
what the photo captures or represents?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON ...
Criteria 2 What are the differing perspectives? What are the differing perspectives captured in the photo? What conclusions can
be made from the photo about the differing beliefs, values, and motivations
captured?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON ...
Criteria 3 Is there a danger of committing presentism? Does the photo explain or illustrate perspectives in their proper historical
context? Does the photo invite the viewer to interpret the actions of
people in the past through a current belief system?
RESEARCH NEEDED ON ...