Aboriginal Peoples and Quebec: Competing for Legitimacy as Emergent Nations

• Main Author: Barsh, Russel Lawrence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 1997
• Subjects: Quebec sovereignty; competing ethnonationalisms; debating independence; remain part of Canada; Arctic; Nunavut; Canada; Indian; British Columbia; Central Arctic; inuit
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cx0s4h9

Despite the reprieve offered by a narrow ”No” vote in the October 30, 1995 referendum on Quebec sovereignty, the political geography of Canada, and indeed the idea of Canada as a nation-state, are still far from settled. Scholars and politicians have forecast everything from Yugoslav-style chaos, to...