WORLD IN BRIEF : CANADA : Indians Call for End to Armed Standoff
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Hundreds of Algonquins gathered in front of Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa to ask the federal government to intervene in a seven-day armed standoff between Quebec Mohawks and police. The Mohawks have set up a blockade to stop construction of a golf course in Oka, 20 miles west of Montreal, on what they claim is ancestral land.
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