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- CONVICTED. Ronald Cross, 34, and Gordon Lazore, 32, two
- high-profile warriors of the Mohawk tribe; of 20 charges and
- nine charges respectively, including assault and weapons
- offenses, stemming from an armed standoff with the Canadian army
- in 1990 near Montreal that triggered a debate over Indian rights
- in Canada and the U.S.; by Quebec Superior Court; in Saint
- Jerome. The confrontation between the Mohawks and armed forces
- began when Natives from the Kanesatake Reserve mounted a
- roadblock on an access road to protest plans by the nearby
- village of Oka to expand a golf course on land the Indians said
- was theirs.
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