<A HREF ="Gos4.ram">Play clip using the stand-alone RealPlayer!</A><A HREF ="http://www.real.com/products/player/d1.html">Click here to download the latest RealPlayer!</A>  A final word from James Gosnell of the Nisga'a.

OKA. After years of denial and neglect at the hands of successive Tory and Liberal governments, Canadian indigenous people boiled over in the summer of 1990, and presented other governments with a classic crisis wild card.

What follows are some glimpses into the Summer of 1990, which began with the Mohawks of Kanesatake over a burial ground vs. a golf course, and ended up as a military operation and national crisis.

<A HREF ="okmul1.ram">Play clip using the stand-alone RealPlayer!</A><A HREF ="http://www.real.com/products/player/d1.html">Click here to download the latest RealPlayer!</A>  Initially, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was bumblingly apologetic about it all.

But as the crisis wildcard played itself out, the federal position hardened.

<A HREF ="oksiddon.ram">Play clip using the stand-alone RealPlayer!</A><A HREF ="http://www.real.com/products/player/d1.html">Click here to download the latest RealPlayer!</A>  Minister of Indian Affairs Tom Siddon drones on about law & order.

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