e Aboriginal people, but they continued to live there, fighting for the land that was rightly theirs. They felt that the land should be reclaimed by the Mohawks of Kanesatake
             because the land "had been promised on many occasions, but never given." The Aboriginals felt this way because the "land was purchased by the government and was to be transferred to the Mohawks at a later date."
             With tension between the Mohawks and the government already high, the last thing they needed was another dispute with respect to land. In 1989, the Municipality of Oka and Le Club golf d'Oka decided that they would extend a golf course, that bordered Kanesatake, nine more holes. The problem was that the planned holes would cross onto the land that the Mohawks were entitled to. The area of land in question "included a Native cemetery and parts of a pine forest known as 'The Pines'". Obviously, the Mohawks would not allow the government to intimidate them and they refused any construction to be completed on their buri
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