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Technologies of Modernity in Tracey Deer’s Mohawk Girls Modernity plays an intricate role in Canadian society and the way in which it was built. One aspect of modernity that is particularly important to Canada’s colonial history would be with respect to the First Nations population of Canada. This paper will define and work through the concept of modernity and technologies of modernity in relation to Tracey Deer’s documentary Mohawk Girls. I argue that reserves and blood quantums

In 1949 the Trans-Canada Highway Act was passed by Canada’s Parliament. The Act allowed for the building of a national highway with costs divided between the Federal Government and each provincial government. Construction of the highway began the year after the passing of the Trans-Canada Highway Act, 1950. Seven years after starting construction Saskatchewan finished its section, becoming the first province to do so. The entire highway was not completed until 1971, but Prime Minister John Diefenbaker

application that set both constitutions apart. To begin, the Iroquois League were established by Hiwatha and Deganwidah, leaders of the Mohawk tribe. The year in which the Iroquois League was established is debatable, however historians have estimated that it was established sometime between A.D. 1000 and 1450. The Iroquois League were composed of five principal nations; Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Oneida and Cayuga. When the Iroquois League came together, they created The Great Law of Peace, a constitution

effected the Mohawk in many ways but, in order to understand how it affects them. One must understand their lives and culture before they had any European contact at all. POLITICS: The Mohawk also know as the Kanien'kehá:ka people were northeastern natives that were part of a Confederacy know as the Iroquois Confederacy. The Iroquois Confederacy also known as the Haudenosaunee was a peace agreement and alliance between five different tribes (six after 1722) that spoke a similar language and had a

The night of February 28, 1704 marks the surprise attack performed by the Mohawk Indians on the Deerfield, Massachusetts’s community. This sets the stage for the events that follow in the novel Unredeemed Captive by the Yale historian named John Demos. The Mohawk Indians captured and killed many individuals as well as families, and then proceeded to send them on a two-month long journey from Massachusetts to Canada. The journey claimed the lives of many as a result of the harsh winter’s traveling

Transcontinental Railway, interstate highways and airplanes changed the shape of our country, there was the New York State Erie Canal system. Although the idea of a canal was perceived in the late 1700’s, it wasn’t until the 1790’s that locks and canals on the Mohawk River allowed for boat travel from Schenectady to Oswego and to Seneca Lake in the Finger lakes region of New York. One canal of great significance was the Erie Canal.

| The "Oka Crisis" often brings to mind the often published, somewhat famous image of the Mohawk warrior whose face is covered with a bandana, dressed head to toe in camouflage equipped with a large gun on his back, nose to nose with a military soldier. It is an image that is used to symbolize the sense of tension that existed far preceding the 78 day standoff. Not only was there tension between the Mohawk people and the

police, the Canadian armed forces and the Mohawk people.1 The stand that the Mohawk people took in the town of Oka became a major revelation for the aboriginal people spreading awareness of aboriginal rights across Canada. This paper is divided into four sections. First, I will introduce

the controversy surrounding the stopping of the Meech Lake Accord by Elijah Harper who an act of protest initiated a filibuster before the accord’s deadline. The second crisis beginning in July 11, 1990 involving a 78-day armed standoff between the Mohawk nation of Kanesatake, the Quebec provincial police, and the Canadian armed forces near the town of Oka, Quebec which became known as the Oka Crisis. The events began in June 30, 1990 when the municipality of Oka was granted a court injunction to dismantle

Punk has influenced and has been influenced by popular culture in a number of ways. Since the beginning of the subculture, major label record labels, haute couture, and the mass media have attempted to use punk for profit and popularity. Punk fashion is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewelry, and body modifications of the punk subculture. Many punks use clothing as a way of making a statement. First days of punk took place in London in the middle of the 70’s. Young teenagers and rebel followers