Sovereignty and Resistance
This theme offers film excerpts on land claims, management of natural resources, ancestral rights and recovery of Aboriginal cultural artefacts. It also presents images showing the resistance of Aboriginal peoples to repression by non-Aboriginal culture.
Excerpts
Dancing Around the Table, Part One
2
Our Nationhood
3
5
Riel Country
3
4
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
2
Our Nationhood
2003, Director: Obomsawin, Alanis
excerpt 5 2 min 49 s
Description
Even though the Quebec government refused to grant them any form of governmental autonomy in 1981 or the right to deploy their own fishery management plan in 1984, the Listuguj Mi’kmaq people continued to fight. In the end, they succeeded in imposing their salmon-fishing management plan.
Questions
1. What were the provisions of the Mi’kmaq fisheries management plan?
2. What did the Listuguj give up by implementing their resource management plan?
2. What did the Listuguj give up by implementing their resource management plan?
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