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The ���dzܳ�é�� Accord, signed in 1998, put the territory onto a path of more autonomy.

Those restrictions have since been lifted, and commercial flights are slowly resuming from a smaller airstrip near the capital, Noumea, though the territory’s main airport remains closed.

The authorities continue to enforce a nightly curfew and a ban on alcohol sales, while Indigenous Kanak protesters maintain barricades on Noumea’s outskirts and in remote towns like Hienghene.

“We closed their door and keep them there and make them see what it’s like when a Kanak boy is kept in their jail in Noumea,” Jonas Tein, a protester in Hienghene, said about the town’s police station, which appears to have been resupplied through regular visits by police helicopters.

“We try to stay calm,” he said, but the crackdown by French police made him “want to have guns and do what they did in Noumea.”