User:James Hyett/Mohawk Civil War

The term Mohawk civil war refers to an occasionally violent period of unrest in early 1990 at Akwesasne, a Mohawk territory that straddles the borders of the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec and New York state. The conflict centred around the operation of a casino on the New York portion of Akwesasne territory, but the casino was by no means the only issue at hand during the conflict; cigarette smuggling, as well as the decades-old dispute around the legitimacy of the elected tribal governments, also contributed to the tension at Akwesasne.