Review of the Indigenous Caribbean Center

(formerly The CAC Review - ISSN 1684-0232)

1/22/2009

YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND

Posted by Maximilian C. Forte |



You Are on Indian Land

Mort Ransen, 1969, 36 min 48 s
The film shows the confrontation between police and a 1969 demonstration by Mohawks of the St. Regis Reserve on the bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. By blocking traffic on the bridge, which is on the Reserve, the Indians drew public attention to their grievance that they were prohibited by Canadian authorities from duty-free passage of personal purchases across the border, a right they claim was established by the Jay Treaty of 1794.

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