2016, 82 min
It was the first time that aboriginal Canadians said NO! to a government, and went on to win important concessions in what was effectively Canada’s first land claims settlement. In 1971, long before any notion of aboriginal rights was enshrined in Canadian law, the government of Québec province began construction of a vast hydroelectric project that would dam the rivers and flood the hunting grounds of the Crees and Inuit.
This is the inside story, from the Inuit point-of-view, of the David-vs-Goliath battle that brought the Inuit and Crees the concessions that would allow them to build new semi-autonomous societies in their homelands in northern Québec.