A dissident Nunavik community shifts towards the JBNQA – Nunatsiaq News
July 24, 2015
“We will be in better control of our own land affairs”
To an outsider, a lot has changed in Ivujivik in recent years, as Nunavik’s northernmost community has made the slow and quiet move to join the region’s land claims agreement — a move made official just this past week.
But in the 40 years since it was first signed, Ivujivimmiut have not so quietly been debating the merits of the James Bay and Northern Quebec agreement.
Although the community came out strongly against the agreement in the 1970s, the tide began to turn through the 1980s.
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