Oka Crisis artifacts question
Hi, I’m a Syilx from the Okanagan. Back in 1990 or whatever during the Oka Crisis several men from my reserve and surrounding communities were among many other supporters who traveled to that community to help. I don’t know the full picture of what the people I knew did but I think some of them helped with security or something, I don’t really know tbh. Anyway I’m curious if anyone on Reddit who is from that community, or who travelled there or have family that might have been there.
A family member found and showed me what looked like a page from a funny “newsletter” that looked like it was drawn by someone at Oka. I’m interested to know if it’s something that actually was a real thing, the newsletter or cartoons or whatever. I’m curious if it is verifiable and really like an artifact or whatever from that time and place. I thought that if it is real, maybe for the daily life for the people at that crisis maybe they were using humour to deal with a frightening and tense situation.
The cartoon drawn depicts two men from my reserve who were my relatives, and were best of friends; they were a sight, one was small and the other was huge. So the cartoon is of the smaller one next to the bigger guy working at a checkstop.
It’s interesting to me because it’s my family for one things, they’re both deceased now, and also I have an anthropology degree, and I love this kind of stuff.