Power Struggles
Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec
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Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great Whale Project. In the 1970s, both provinces signed so-called “modern treaties” with First Nations for the development of large hydro projects in Aboriginal territories. In recent times, however, the two provinces have diverged in their implementation, and public opinion of these agreements has ranged from celebratory to outrage.Power Struggles brings together perspectives on these issues from both scholars and activists. In debating the relative merits and limits of these agreements, they raise a crucial question: Is Canada on the eve of a new relationship with First Nations, or do the same colonial attitudes that have long characterized Canadian-Aboriginal relations still prevail?
Table of Contents
Cover | 1 |
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Contents | 8 |
Introduction | 14 |
PART I: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Hydro Developments, the State, and the First Peoples | 24 |
Foreword | 26 |
1 Hydro Development in Quebec and Manitoba: Old Relationshipsor New Social Contract? | 30 |
2 The State, The Marketplace, and First Nations: Theorizing First Nation Self-Determination in an Era of Globalization | 50 |
3 The Way to Modern Treaties: A Review of Hydro Projects and Agreements in Manitoba and Quebec | 66 |
4 The Long Walk of Aboriginal Peoples: Achieving Rights, Freedom, and Self-Determination (1950–2005) | 86 |
PART II: The Manitoba Experience: A Legacy of Disrespect | 106 |
Foreword | 108 |
5 Engineering Poverty: Colonialism and Hydroelectric Development in Northern Manitoba | 114 |
6 A Step Back: The Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and the Wuskwatim Project | 140 |
7 In Service to Globalization: Manitoba Hydro, Aboriginal Communities, and the Integration of Electrical Markets | 156 |
8 Monitoring for Success: Designing and Implementing a Monitoring Regime for Northern Manitoba | 180 |
PART III: Toward a Change of Paradigm in Quebec | 214 |
Foreword | 216 |
9 Should the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement Serve as a Model Agreement for Other First Nations? | 226 |
10 The End of an Era in Quebec: The Great Whale Project and the Inuit of Kuujjuarapik and the Umiujaq | 238 |
11 More Dams for Nitassinan: New Business Partnerships between Hydro-Québec and Innu Communities | 266 |
12 Governance and Hydro Development in Quebec and Manitoba | 292 |
Contributors | 306 |
Appendix: Selected Web Sites | 310 |
Bibliography | 314 |
Index | 338 |
Book details
- Publisher
- University of Manitoba Press
- Categories
- Sociology, Public Affairs & Administration, Energy Industries
- Published
- March 2011
- Pages
- 334
- Chapters
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN Paper
- 9780887557057
- ISBN PDF
- 9780887553561