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The Terms of Our Surrender Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu: 9781912250462_epub-9a

The Terms of Our Surrender Colonialism, Dispossession and the Resistance of the Innu
9781912250462_epub-9a
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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

If we go back to the values and the actions of our traditional leaders, they were always looking for ways to bring food to the table. It was always survival mode. Trying to bring something good for the family, whether it was only to bring flour from the trading post. They would try to bring something back for the family so they could live throughout the year. I believe that the leaders, the elected leaders nowadays, have to do the same in trying to bring food to the tables of the families who are living in this community. Nowadays we are stuck in between two different lifestyles, the traditional life and this modern life, and we are always stuck in between these two roads and we are not totally fit for the non-Innu way of life and many of our young people are not fit for the traditional way of life. So we are stuck in between and we have to find a junction or a balance between the two lives to bring wealth or food in our community and, for that, a leader has to be wise and they have to have the wisdom to find the balance between the Innu way of life and the non-Innu way of life; and, to have wisdom, the elected leaders would work closely with the communities, the grassroots people: they should work very closely with the community. It is as if they are disconnected from their community, their people.

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