Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: On Autonomy and Development / Colin H. Scott

2 Healing the Past, Meeting the Future / Peter Penashue

Part One: (Re)defining Territory

3 Shaping Modern Inuit Territorial Perception and Identity in the Quebec-Labrador Peninsula / Ludger Müller-Wille

4 Writing Legal Histories on Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond

5 The Landscape of Nunavik/The Territory of Nouveau-Québec / Peter Jacobs

6 Aboriginal Rights and Interests in Canadian Northern Seas / Monica E. Mulrennan and Colin H. Scott

7 Territories, Identity, and Modernity among the Atikamekw (Haut St-Maurice, Québec) / Sylvie Poirier

Part Two: Resource Management and Development Conflicts

8 Voices from a Disappearing Forest: Government, Corporate, and Cree Participatory Forestry Management Practices / Harvey Feit and Robert Beaulieu

9 Conflicts between Cree Hunting and Sport Hunting: Co-Management Decision-Making at James Bay / Colin H. Scott and Jeremy Webber

10 Becoming a Mercury Dealer: Moral Implications and the Construction of Objective Knowledge for the James Bay Cree / Richard T. Scott

11 Media Contestation of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement: The Social Construction of the Cree Problem / Donna Patrick and Peter Armitage

12 Low-level Military Flight Training in Quebec-Labrador: The Anatomy of a Northern Development Conflict / Mary Barker

13 The Land Claims Negotiations of the Montagnais or Innu of the Province of Quebec and the Management of Natural Resources / Paul Charest

Part Three: Community, Identity, and Governance

14 Community Dispersement and Organization: The Case of Ouje-bougoumou / Abel Bosum

15 Gathering Knowledge: Reflections on the Anthropology of Identity, Aboriginality, and the Annual Gatherings in Whapmagoostui, Quebec / Naomi Adelson

16 Building a Community in the Town of Chisasibi / Sue Jacobs

17 Cultural Change in Mistissini: Implications for Self-Determination and Cultural Survival / Catherine James

18 The Decolonization of the Self and the Recolonization of Knowledge: The Politics of Nunavik Health Care / Josée G. Lavoie

19 Country Space as a Healing Place: Community Healing at Sheshatshiu / Cathrine Degnen

20 The Concept of Community and the Challenge for Self-Government / Hedda Schuurman

21 The Double Bind of Aboriginal Self-Government / Adrian Tanner

22 Afterword: Reflections on Strategy / Colin H. Scott

Index

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The essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity.

About the Author

Colin H. Scott is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, McGill University.