A watershed of words: Litigating and negotiating nature in Eastern James Bay, 1971-75

Canadian Historical Review

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-84

  Carlson, Hans M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b Canadian American Center ^*  (United States)

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EID: 37349059815     PISSN: 00083755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/CHR.85.1.63     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. John Ciaccia, James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (Montreal: Quebec National Library 1976), xiii
2. Matthew Coon-Come, 'A Reduction of Our World,' in Kurt Russo, ed., Our People, Our Land: Perspectives on the Columbus Quincentenary (Bellingham, Wash.: Lummi Tribe and Kluckholn Center 1992), 82
3. Matthew Coon-Come, quoted in Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishing 1995), 231
4. Daniel Francis and Toby Morantz, Partners in Fur: A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1983)
5. Toby Morantz, An Ethnohistoric Study of Eastern James Bay Cree Social Organization, 1700-1850 (Ottawa: National Museum of Canada 1983)
6. Edward S. Rogers, Quest for Food and Furs: The Mistassini Cree, 1953-1954 (Ottawa: National Museum of Canada 1973)
7. Adrian Tanner, Bringing Home Animals (New York: St Martin's Press 1979)
8. Richard J. Preston, Cree Narrative: Expressing the Meaning of Personal Events (Ottawa: National Museums of Canada 1975)
9. Harvey Feit, "The Ethno-ecology of the Waswanipi Cree,' in B. Cox, ed., Cultural Ecology Readings on Canadian Indians (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 1973)
10. Sean McCutchen, Electric Rivers (Montreal: Black Rose Books 1991)
11. Susan Williams, Hydro-Quebec and the Great Whale Project: Hydroelectric Development in Northern Quebec (Washington, DC: Investor Responsibility Research Center 1993)
12. Richard F. Salisbury, A Homeland for the Cree: Regional Development in James Bay, 1971-1981 (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1986)
13. Boyce Richardson, Strangers Devour the Land (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1976)
14. James F. Hornig, ed., Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydro-electrical Project (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 1999)
15. Billy Diamond, 'Aboriginal Rights: The James Bay Experience,' in J. Anthony Long, ed., The Quest for Justice: Aboriginal People and Aboriginal Rights (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1985)
16. Paul Joffe, Sovereign Injustice: Forcible Inclusion of the James Bay Crees and Cree Territory into a Sovereign Québec (Nemaska, Que.: Grand Council of the Crees 1995)
17. Quebec looked back to the precedents set in New France, not in British North America, and felt no compelling need to extinguish Native claims
18. National Library of Canada, James Bay Collection, Cabinet 39, Kanatewat v. James Bay Development Corporation, AA-20, vol. 1, Billy Diamond, 1-43. Materials subsequently cited as AA-20 are from the court transcript housed in Cabinet 39
19. AA-20, vol. 3, 33-4
20. Calvin Martin, Keepers of the Game: Indian-Animal Relationships in the Fur Trade (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1979), 5
21. Generalized modes of perception, the act of inductive reasoning, are the basis of Western science. By finding the general meaning in specific incidents, we view the world as acting in accordance with scientific laws that can be relied upon and anticipated
22. Preston, Cree Narrative, 182
23. Billy Diamond, AA-20, vol. 4, 38-9
24. Steven Tapiatak, AA-20, vol. 6, 73-92
25. François Mianiscum, AA-20, vol. 5, 49
26. Harvey Feit, AA-20, vol. 9A, 96-8
27. Edward S. Rogers, AA-20, vol. 13, 77-8
28. J.A. Spence, AA-20, vol. 29
29. Hare, AA-20, vol. 10, 42
30. Peter Hutchins, vol. 75, 6
31. James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (Montreal: Quebec National Library 1976), 169
32. JBNQA, 332