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Article: Into the north. (Cree Indians in Quebec)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- October 1, 1991
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In northern Quebec, there is the Abitibi, the frontier of Quebecois settlement. I have visited there to talk with copper miners about their trade-union traditions; there are health centres, convents, administrative buildings, union halls. Then, at the very tip of the Quebec land mass, there is Arctic Quebec. There is no more forest here, and the majority of the population is Inuit. I have visited there too, and been struck especially by the Inuit co-op movement.
But in between these two worlds, there is a forest I have never visited.
This is the land of the Cree, that Indian people whose presence in Canada stretches, amazingly, from the Rockies to ...