I always thought that they were insulting our people in some way because it’s not their land or they have joint rights on that land. If they don’t have exclusive rights to that land, at least they should have considered our views and be respectful or asked the government if we wanted to surrender our lands because at least we should have had choices as a society about that. But they don’t insert any provisions in those treaties that affect the rights of the Innu. But they were careless, I believe, but they would say, I heard somewhere, that the Crees or the Inuit were acting under duress, that we were forced to sign this. Well we were under the same situation and we didn’t surrender our rights.

The Cree and the Inuit taking the money is like stealing the land. Selling the land is prostitution – it is selling your soul.

Flooding ruined our traditional way of life – animals, fish, poisoned by mercury – we cannot repair the damage done.

Canadians don’t want to know about our rights – they just want to kill our case.

When the government wants talks to break down they can always do it. It was always like that.