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The Terms of Our Surrender Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu: 9781912250462_epub-31a

The Terms of Our Surrender Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu
9781912250462_epub-31a
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Terminology
  7. Glossary
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Maps
  10. Preface
  11. Part One: The Innu
    1. Chapter 1: Innu/Canadian Relations in their Social Context
    2. Chapter 2: The Innu Left to their Fate in Schefferville
    3. Chapter 3: Matimekush Lac John Today
    4. Chapter 4: Legacies of the Past: Barriers to Effective Negotiation
    5. Chapter 5: Racism
  12. Part Two: The Royal Proclamation and Questions of Trust Over Canadian Indigenous Land
    1. Chapter 6: Historical Background
    2. Chapter 7: The Personal Fiduciary Duty
    3. Chapter 8: Bending the Law to the Needs of Settlement
    4. Chapter 9: The Honour of the Crown, the Duty to Consult and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  13. Part Three: The Modern Treaties and Canada’s Comprehensive Land Claims Policy
    1. Chapter 10: The James Bay Project: ‘The Plot to Drown the Northern Woods’
    2. Chapter 11: The Malouf Judgment – Chief Robert Kanatewat et al. v La Société de Développement de la Baie James et al. et La Commission Hydro-Électrique de Québec [1974] RP 38
    3. Chapter 12: Negotiating the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
    4. Chapter 13: The Aftermath of Signing the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
    5. Chapter 14: The Comprehensive Land Claims Policy
  14. Part Four: The Innu Experience of the Comprehensive Land Claims Process
    1. Chapter 15: ‘All that is Left to us is the Terms of our Surrender’: Negotiations to Recover Lost Innu Lands
    2. Chapter 16: The New Dawn Agreement
    3. Chapter 17: The Position of the Innu who Live in Quebec
    4. Chapter 18: Construction and Protest at Muskrat Falls
  15. Part Five: ‘Citizens Plus’ or Parallel Paths?
    1. Chapter 19: Academic Solutions
    2. Chapter 20: Indigenous Solutions
    3. Chapter 21: ‘Citizens Plus’ or Parallel Paths?
  16. Appendix A Text of the Royal Proclamation
  17. Appendix B The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover

In the past they wanted to abolish Indian rights, but since 30 to 40 years ago, the universities and schools are taking the cases seriously – Delgamuukw, etc. – we have maybe ten or 12 cases. Our title cannot be extinguished now. All governments must respect that. We maintain that these decisions are right. That is why it took time in the past for the band to negotiate with the governments. And when we look at the government of Quebec or Canada I think they want to stick together – they want us to give them their land and respect their laws. That’s what they are waiting for. That was happening in the beginning when Frenchmen or English explorers, with the church – they wanted to extinguish our religion and persuade us to be like white men. You know the Innu Nation has nine communities. Before it was only one. After the governments were able to separate the group to create three groups. The government tried to get agreement by this. The east are undecided like Ashuanipi and the west are going ahead. They have a lot of steps to go. The two others are just starting negotiations. I know what they did with the tribal councils. They want to accelerate the processes to have the treaty. But the groups are not at the same stage – they have to wait until the others finish. They have to wait a long time. They say we don’t respect what we signed with them. It is not in the treaty. They play with you. They have cards on the table. They don’t tell you the truth. They are not in good faith. They just want our signatures and to give us the money and they own the land. Because what’s in the land is going to make them money – with our land. It’s not the money from the land. It’s government money. They are not going to share. Like I said, I once met a Cree leader in Quebec City. I took a walk with that man and I told him ‘Look what the government did to your land. We didn’t sign. They made a map. They gave you money. What they did was take the land, the river – they gave you small change.’ It’s like a wheel of fortune. You receive small change. Just a few dollars.

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