“Land as much as language is central to native culture and to the current Quebec-Indian conflict. And here too the PQ has shown a harmful intransigence. After justly criticizing the Bourrassa regime for bulldozing through the James Bay treaty, the PQ has turned around and taken the hardest possible line on native land claims. In their white paper on sovereignty-association the government stunned the native people by stating that after the 1977 signing of the James Bay agreement into law, there were no longer any legitimate claims on Quebec territory. This despite the fact that Indian groups like the Montagnais, whose traditional tribal lands account for the north-eastern quarter of the province, have never signed a land treaty with any government, federal or provincial.”
Indian Wars in Quebec – Peter McFarlane (1981)
Aida Rends 