Career
He has been professor of sociology at Université Laval since 1976. He began the first project into modern autonomous Inuit government in Canada. A critic of hydroelectric development in Baie-James, he left public function to become a counselor for Inuit dissidents in the famous James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
The Commission Bélanger-Campeau called him to give evidence in the aboriginal question.
From 1988–1989, he edited Recherches sociographiques, a journal published by the Département de sociologie, Faculté des sciences sociales of Université Laval, Quebec City. 2004 – Governor General"s Awards, Louisiana Réduction: l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui.