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Nicole Sheldon-Desjardins first conceived of a Women’s Day film festival during her time in Cameroon with the Peace Corps. There, she said, International Women’s Day is one of just three holidays—along with Independence Day and Youth Day—celebrated...
Scarcely a day earlier, Warriors from another Mohawk community, the Kahnawake reserve, had agreed to put down their rifles and had actually begun to help Canadian soldiers tear down the barricades the Indians had erected to block the Mercier Bridge into Montreal. That was the best news in weeks, and...
The on-again-off-again stalemate began in early July when Quebec police raided a four-month-old blockade the Indians had erected at Kanesatake. The Mohawks were protesting a proposed expansion of a local golf course into what they regard as ancestral land. In the ensuing gunfight, a police...
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