I think that the most significant aspects of this conflict in regards to the oka crisis are many things. The first great aspect of this was that their is very poor communication. Communication is key in keeping peace and solving issues. How i know that communication is poor due to this situation is because the land claim is still unsolved after all this time.

The mohawk people are like many First Nation people. Trying to keep the land that was rightfully theirs. The government however is not looking at helping the first nations people suceed but only to themselves. They did not even consult first nations when they were going to build a golf course on their lands.

The value of the land is the next big player in this conflict. The whole conflict is about expanding a golf course on the Mohawk Land. If the land had no value there would be no conflict. Just like the Lubicon Nation oil value. The government would have set the land claim if the land a little value to them for profit and gain.

The next large factor in this conflict in my opinion would have to be, the blocades and other barriers that were formed to keep people out of their land. The "innocently" "harmless" barriers may seem that way but they caused deaths and fighting. An officer was even killed because of this. If they had used their mouths instead of weapons and blockades the conflict would not have gotten to that level of physical violence.

Overall i think that this conflict could be minimized if and only if, the government and first nations people spoke rather than fight, inform rather than go ahead with plans without the others consent. If they could learn to communicate by speaking and LISTENING to one another this conflict would be solved by now, and those key factors to this conflict would be diminished.