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Inuit Negotiate the James Bay Agreement
Part 2
From: Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids
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This reading examines the Quebec government’s agreement to provide essential services to Nunavik in exchange for what Zebedee calls "the essence of Inuit identity." It also discusses Indigenous opposition to the Agreement-in-Principle that was reached in November 1974.
Contributors
Zebedee Nungak
Zebedee Nungak is a writer and broadcaster, an outspoken defender of the Inuktitut language and a leading figure in the building of Nunavik. He helped negotiate, and is a signatory to, the 1975 James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement. He later held several leadership positions in Nunavik, and was Co-Chairperson of the Inuit Committee on National Issues during the Aboriginal Constitutional conferences, 1984-87. He lives in Kangirsuk with his wife and their seven children.
