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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 a sign that the crisis might be easing. But that was before the army's action at Kanesatake...
...sorely lacking in the seven-week impasse between Mohawk Indians and Canadian authorities. Late last week, just as a possible resolution of the standoff appeared to be in sight, another factional skirmish broke out behind the barricades of the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, near Oka, 18 miles west of Montreal. The incident was relatively minor: two Mohawk men were severely beaten with baseball bats by a group of members of the militant Mohawk Warriors Society. But it was enough to break the impasse. In response, Canadian troops, backed by armored vehicles and helicopters, swept into the Mohawk reserve to restore...