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Kanesatake Mohawks put up burning blockade near Oka

Updated Sat. Jul. 26 2008 3:29 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Police in Quebec are investigating after a group of Kanesatake Mohawks set up a roadblock on a provincial highway, leaving at least two police cars damaged.

Quebec Provincial Police Sgt. Gregory Gomez Del Prado told CTV.ca that native protesters erected the barricade on Highway 344 near the town of Oka shortly after midnight. About 12 to 15 demonstrators were involved.

"They put some pieces of wood on the road and lit a fire," he said.

"We entered into contact with members of the (Mohawk) band council and those members had a discussion with the (protesters), and after a while they decided to leave."

Del Prado said demonstrators left the road block shortly before 10 a.m. ET. Police then called in the transportation office to remove the charred debris, much of it from trees that had been dragged into the middle of the road.

Del Prado said no one was injured, but at least two police cars were damaged. He did not have details about how the cars were damaged.

Police made no arrests, but Del Prado said authorities are still probing the incident and charges may be laid.

The Kanesatake Mohawk reserve has made national and international headlines for nearly two decades. In 1990, some members set up a blockade near Oka to stop the town from expanding a golf course onto a burial ground. A Quebec police officer was killed during a raid to end a tense standoff that ensued. The confrontation went on for 78 days, ending after Ottawa called in the military.

This past spring, a massive police raid at three different Quebec Mohawk reserves -- including the Kanesatake reserve -- netted $2.5 million in cash and a large firearms cache, including three grenade launchers.