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- Title
Les lois de l'extension des frontières du Québec de 1898 et de 1912, la Convention de la Baie James et du Nord québécois et la Première Nation Abitibiwinni.
- Authors
Frenette, Jacques
- Abstract
The Boundaries Extension Acts of 1898 and 1912 have defined, in good part, Québec's territory. Authors have considered these Acts from the angle of Indian rights arguing, in accordance with paragraph 2 of the 1912 Act, an obligation for Québec in this regard. Québec recognized its obligation at the signing, with the Crees and the Inuit, of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement in 1975. Anishnabeg/Algonquins, Atikamekw, and Innus, which were also inhabiting the annexed territories of 1898 and 1912, saw their rights extinguished unilaterally. The 1912 Act may have served as an important legal argument at the time of the Agreement, but few researchers have ever considered its historical context. The review of this period's documentation restores to the forefront the rights issue of the Indian nations left aside as it is the case with the Abitibiwinni First Nation.
- Subjects
CANADA; QUEBEC (Province); ACQUISITION of territory; JAMES Bay &; Northern Quebec Agreement (Canada); ALGONQUIANS (North American peoples); NORD-du-Quebec (Quebec); LAW; LEGAL status of First Nations; FIRST Nations of Canada; HISTORY; NATIVE American history; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1024476ar