“Beans” is the story of a young Mohawk girl who is torn between childhood and adolescence and forced to grow up during the Oka Crisis, an Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 ...

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.

The Oka crisis, a dispute between Canadian authorities and the Mohawk people over land rights, was reaching its height, and the frightened children crouched on the floor until Deer’s mother ...

But the macro picture of the problem is not what matters in “Beans.” To communicate the impact of that racism and xenophobia, particularly as exemplified by the 1990 Oka Crisis in Quebec, Deer ...

The drama “Beans” sets its coming-of-age story during the 1990 Oka crisis, when Mohawk residents of Oka, Quebec, began protesting the expansion of a golf course into Native burial ground.

In 1990, the Mohawk people from the Kanesatake reserve in Quebec started an uprising to protect their land from a golf course expansion, leading to a tense 78-day standoff between them, police and ...

That is, until you consider that it’s only been 30 years since the Oka Crisis, a violent 78-day land dispute between the Mohawk community and the predominantly white government of Oka, Quebec ...

That is, until you consider that it’s only been 30 years since the Oka Crisis, a violent 78-day land dispute between the Mohawk community and the predominantly white government of Oka, Quebec ...

Mohawk activists drove out of a forested area in Kanesatake and began a very slow and loud rolling blockade toward Oka. READ MORE: Convoys mark 30th anniversary of Oka crisis as land dispute ...

TIFF: Tracey Deer's artfully rendered drama sets an adolescent self-reckoning against the rich backdrop of Quebec's 1990 Oka Crisis. It’s no surprise that a filmmaker’s best work is often ...

Tracey Deer’s debut feature, premiering at TIFF, examines a 12-year-old’s coming-of-age during the 1990 Oka Crisis—a grueling standoff between Mohawk activists and Quebecois.