The published version of this article was translated into French by Recherches amérindiennes aux Québec for a special issue they prepared in the fall of 1971 shortly after the announcement of the James Bay Hydro-electric Project in April 1971. In a rare intervention by a scholarly journal they quickly responded to the need for a public debate, assembling articles by ethnographers, natural scientists, administrators, journalists and residents of the region, including reports of responses in Cree villages. The English version of this article which is also included here is from an unpublished English version of the Recherches amérindiennes issue that was prepared by the Programme in the Anthropology of Development at McGill University.
Harvey A. Feit (Fri,) studied this question.