More reasons why golf is evil.

"It's A Book Club" went to the movies again last night, (though it read a little before the show started, if that counts.) Actually this wasn't so much a movie as an important documentary film: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, directed by the Canadian Native filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.

Obomsawin, who was present in person for a Q&A, documented the standoff between Mohawk warriors and the Canadian police and army that ended up costing the nation over $155 million dollars as they turned the tiny town of Oka into occupied territory over the summer of 1990. The film conveyed a lot of important history about Native-White relations since the arrival of the French and British, as well as gesturing towards the general complications of bilingual life in Quebec. What started the Mohawk blockade of a key bridge and highway, however? The insistence by the mayor that the town's 9 hole golf course needed to be expanded to 18 holes by unilaterally annexing Mohawk reservation land. Hey, those greens aren't going to bunker themselves.