I chose to do my research paper on land claims. In this paper I will give an assessment of
the James Bay and Northern Quebec land claim final settlement as well as compare it with the
Labrador Inuit land claim. I will talk about the participants in the negotiations, as well as
compensation recieved. I will also describe some of the implementation procedures as well as
land regimes. Finally I will discuss some of the third parties involved as well as resource
revenues allocation.
The James Bay and Northern Quebec agreement was probably the most significant land
claim settlement ever. Its “often referred to as Canada’s first modern land claim agreement” (
Indian and Northen Affairs Canada, pg 28) Its legal status was that of a binding contract, that
could not be broken. The whole process started when the James Bay Hydroelectric project began
to construct on land that the natives used for hunting and trapping that was unceeded. Many
rivers were......
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