Tensions Linger as Troops Seize Last Mohawk Barrier : Canada: Thirty armed ‘Warriors’ still refuse to lay down their weapons. Officials say it may take weeks to restore order.

Canadian soldiers Sunday quietly seized control of the last fortified Mohawk barricade in Quebec, but officials said restoring order after the seven-week armed standoff may take some time.

Troops in armored personnel carriers and backed by helicopters took control of an Indian barricade in Oka, a town about 20 miles west of Montreal, but approximately 30 armed Mohawks calling themselves Warriors refused to lay down their arms.

“Nobody’s giving up nothing,” a Warrior angrily told reporters.

Minister of Defense William McKnight said the army’s job is not over. “They are there to restore law and order, and that has not been concluded,” he said.

The army received a court order two weeks ago to clear the barricades thrown up by Mohawks in Quebec during a dispute over a golf course.

Military sources said 350 soldiers took part in the operation, which began Saturday afternoon with a sweep into the Kanesatake Mohawk settlement.

Several gunshots were heard Saturday and during the night, but there were no reports of casualties.

“It was very successful in the sense that no violence was used--either by us or by the Mohawks,” army spokesman Capt. Yvon Desjardins told reporters.

The soldiers have not yet begun dismantling the last barricade, fearing it may be booby-trapped.

The dispute has been simmering since July 11, when municipal authorities at Oka announced plans to expand a golf course onto land the Mohawks consider sacred.

The Indians erected barricades, and a Quebec policeman was killed when officers stormed them.

The dispute mushroomed as Indians across Canada set up blockades on roads and railways, and heavily armed Warriors poured into Quebec.

The Montreal newspaper La Presse reported Sunday that the army had allowed most of the Warriors who threw up the barricades to slip out of Oka.

The newspaper said fewer than 40 Warriors remain at Oka, while between 200 and 300 others got away with the bulk of the Indians’ arsenal of machine guns, anti-tank guns and grenades.

The atmosphere remained tense Sunday.