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- Title
Les communautés autochtones du Québec et le développement hydroélectrique.
- Authors
Savard, Stéphane
- Abstract
If the 1940s, 50s and 60s are marked by the absence of a balance of power between the State of Québec on the one hand, and the aboriginal communities on the other, the situation changed drastically in the 70s. At this point, some aboriginal leaders, shaken up by the Baie James project, claimed rights that they considered to have been infringed by the on-going works. However, after the agreements were signed dealing with the Northern Québec région, Aboriginal peoples went through hard times between the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s in the absence of any major hydroelectric projects. At the dawn of the 1990s, however, the latter knew how to turn the specific socio-political conjuncture of the time to their own advantage, especially in the wake of the Grande-Baleine project. They managed to successfully upset the balance of power that had been so far unfavourable to them. Finally, the events that took place from 1994 onwards suggest a stabilisation of the balance of power as the local communities are led to cooperate in new hydroelectric projects. Divisions amongst them will however benefit the State of Québec.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); JAMES Bay Region; CANADA; ABORIGINAL Canadians; CIVIL rights; NATIVE American title; JAMES Bay Hydroelectric Project; HISTORY of Quebec (Province)
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2009, Vol 39, Issue 1/2, p47
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/044996ar