Indians to Seek Control of Half of Quebec Land
Associated Press
MONTREAL —
A group of Quebec Indians will ask for jurisdiction over 700,000 square kilometers of territory--almost half of Quebec’s land mass--at a constitutional conference on native rights slated for next year, one of their negotiators said.
The 10,000-member Attikamek-Montagnais Council will use the proposal as an opening bargaining position at the conference, scheduled for April, 1987, Bernard Cleary said in an interview with the daily La Presse.
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