Empty Daybook – Rebecca Belmore on 28 August 1990

On August 28, 1990, during Canada’s Oka Crisis, a convoy of seventy-five cars carrying Mohawk women, children, and elders were evacuated from the Kahnawake reserve in fear of an advance by the Canadian army. The path to safety meant driving through a highway underpass, where from above, Canadian citizens were able to bombard them with rocks while police, ordered to arrest no one, stood by.

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