Description
For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were a few of the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to get up to the disgrace. On this concise, energetic account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree Davids” took action when Québec started construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and on the negotiation table for an accord that effectively changed into Canada’s first land-claims agreement. Nungak’s account is accompanied by his essays on Nunavik history. Together they supply an interesting insight into a virtually unknown chapter of Canadian history.