It’s everybody’s land. If someone wants to drink water or eat the food, they are not going to say don’t go there if it’s their land. It’s every culture’s land. What I can’t accept is that the government is not using it for that reason. It is destroying it all and it is only for money.

When the others signed, we didn’t exist any more in the eyes of Quebec.

Signing didn’t make the Naskapi any happier.

Whenever they extinguish our rights, the government extinguishes our culture.

I was glad the chief didn’t sign. So was he.

It’s good not to sign because we can’t sell our rights. It’s not something you can sell.

There is not enough money for us all to take our kids to the country.

The James Bay Agreement was signed when I was 14 and I knew I didn’t want it – I saw the elders go off to Ottawa. I didn’t understand why the Cree signed.

We are miserable when we see our land given away to others and the privileges they receive when they sign agreements.

The Cree and Naskapi signed for themselves but they signed away our land.