On the Land: Confronting the Challenges to Aboriginal Self-Determination

It is from the land that the Native peoples of Canada draw their strength.

If the people of Quebec claim a right to sovereignty, Inuit of Quebec argue their right of self-determination empowers them with the choice to remain part of Quebec, of Canada or to secede on their own.

The James Bay Cree consider Hydro Quebec’s "mad plans to engineer and dam the vast ecosystem" where they have lived for centuries an affront to their own right to control their land.

The Labrador Innu are struggling with...