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 ...

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 ...

Navigating childhood to adolescence is universally a challenge. “Beans,” the feature directorial debut of award-winning documentarian Tracey Deer (“Anne with an E,” “Mohawk Girls”), reveals how much ...

I don't want to rehash details of the Oka Crisis. I learned about fear and betrayal, learned to accept things I never wanted to believe. I have no wish to relive that 78-day nightmare. Let journalists ...

PORT ANGELES — The prize-winning film “Beans” will be shown at Peninsula College in honor of International Women’s Day beginning Thursday. “Beans” is the story of a young Mohawk girl who is torn ...

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 ...

On this day 25 years ago, the armed stand-off and Mohawk land claim dispute that would come to be known as the Oka Crisis was in full swing. It had been sparked by a clash between Mohawk warriors and ...

One of Tracey Deer’s deepest memories growing up was the Oka Crisis, when Mohawk residents in Quebec protested plans to expand a golf course into their burial ground in the face of widespread racism.

Docmaker Tracey Deer brings vivid personal experience to her first fiction feature, set against the tumultuous Oka Crisis land dispute in 1990. Anyone who has attended any public events in Canada in ...

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 ...

Fictionalized portrayal of the conflict and standoff in Kanehsatake during the summer of 1990. This major conflict between a Mohawk community and municipal, Quebec and Canadian governments was over ...