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The article focuses on Panasuk and Proulx study would provide us with a essential light on distant and contemporary origins of an intense period of conflict. It mentions violent incidents relating to the salmon fishing have multiplied between Aboriginals and non-natives on the North Shore and in Gaspésie such as arrests, seizure of nets, gunshots, demonstrations, gestures of defiance. It also mentions Racism, discrimination and dispossession in hunting and fishing chronicles.

The article presents an interview with anthropologist Pierre Lepage concerning the history of the Innu Indians from the Québec province of Canada. Lepage discusses his interest in the history of fishing rights on the salmon rivers, his work with anthropologist Rémi Savard at the Commission des droits de la personne du Québec, and the guerre du saumon, a conflict involving the salmon rivers in the Côte-Nord and Gaspé Peninsula areas of the Québec province.

The article discusses the Oka Crisis land dispute between Mohawk Indians and the Canadian government in 1990, exploring the ways in which the crisis illustrated the tensions regarding land use by indigenous peoples over three centuries in Quebec. The article describes the land grants offered to the Sulpician Fathers monastic order in the early 18th century that broached Mohawk land, the demand by Mohawk representative Joseph Onasakenrat to return the land to Mohawks, and the reporting of the newspaper "L'Opinion publique" in 1877.