The first sets the context by describing the historic events in Canada and New Zealand that have resulted in the demands by Indigenous people for the recognition of their rights to land and resources that have been long denied, and the response by the Canadian and New Zealand governments and courts to these demands. [...] As the drama of the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry was being acted out in the Northwest Territories, an event of equal significance, the negotiation of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA), was occurring in the province of Quebec. [...] The event that precipitated the crisis and resulted in the agreement was the 1971 decision of Quebec to develop the hydroelectric potential of the rivers draining into James Bay. [...] In the case of the Inuit and the Crees, the moneys were paid to The Makivik Corporation and the Cree Regional Authority, respectively. [...] The membership of the CRA is the same as that of the Grand Council of the Crees.