Conquête De L'Amérique I &Amp; Ii, La

146 minutes, 1991

LA CONQUÊTE DE L'AMÉRIQUE I

La Conquête de L'amérique I traces the flip side of the history of the Americas as lived by Aboriginals who today reject Canadian and Quebec identity.
They deplore the appropriation of their rivers, land and forest that had reduced them to famine, that deprived them of their economic independence and forced them to live as outlaws, as demonstrated by the never-ending salmon "war" and its Aboriginal victims. Supported by anthropologist Rémi Savard, who sets forth his historical and legal theses, Aboriginals are demanding recognition of their ancestral rights and their political and legal autonomy.

LA CONQUÊTE DE L'AMÉRIQUE II

The Natashquan Aboriginal band undertakes to recover a river expropriated by the government around 1850. These Aboriginals are relentlessly waging a struggle against a historical, economic and cultural backdrop.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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