Tracey Deer’s Toronto Film Festival entry “Beans” tells the story of a 12-year-old Mohawk girl and her family thrust by incidents of racial injustice into the forefront of 1990’s Oka Crisis, in which ...

When she was just 12 years old, filmmaker Tracey Deer decided she would make a film about the Oka Crisis — one that told the story from the perspective of an Indigenous child. The armed standoff, ...

In Beans, now streaming on Hulu, a young Mohawk girl named Tekehentahkhwa (nicknamed “Beans”) is forever changed after she lives through the events of the 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake. Based on the ...

When Mohawk filmmaker Tracey Deer began working on her coming-of-age film Beans, she intended to show Canadian audiences what it was like to be an Indigenous child during the turbulent 78-day conflict ...

OKA, Que. - It was a crisis that grabbed international headlines, with armed Mohawks and Canadian soldiers involved in a lengthy standoff that often appeared on the verge of exploding into full-blown ...

Starring Kiawentiio and Rainbow Dickerson. In English and French, with subtitles. Now playing in theatres in Vancouver. The kid’s given name is Tekehentahkhwa, but everybody just calls her “Beans”.

The events of the summer of 1990 were traumatic for the people of Quebec. Recent news reports and commentaries confirm this. On the other hand, very few people are aware of the scale of the trauma ...

The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake is taking the municipality of Oka to court over what it calls an "illegal" bylaw concerning the land that was at the heart of the Oka Crisis. In December, Oka passed a ...

Slow-moving vehicles waving flags and sounding their horns marked the 30th anniversary of the Oka crisis on Saturday, with community activists urging real reconciliation and a settlement to the ...

Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias “Freddy Kruger” come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kanesatake reserve in Oka, Que., Saturday September 1, 1990.

A middle school student comes of age during a standoff between the police and Mohawk residents during the 1990 Oka crisis in Canada. By Teo Bugbee When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

OKA, Que. - Twenty-five years after the beginning of the violent 78-day standoff between Quebec Mohawks and Canadian soldiers, the community of Kanesatake has not forgotten the Oka crisis or the ...