Innu Nation members are partaking in a high-stakes vote over the next few days — a yes or no choice on whether or not to ratify what could be a historic agreement with Hydro-Québec.

The Tsheuatishiun Agreement, also called the Reconciliation and Collaboration Agreement, would see Hydro-Québec pay $87 million to Sheshatshiu and Natuashish in the form of annual payments into a reconciliation fund over 16 years, along with three per cent of the dividends Hydro-Québec receives from Churchill Falls, as long as it produces power.

The money is the result of a proposed out-of-court settlement Innu Nation and Hydro-Québec reached in June that would see the Indigenous group in Labrador compensated for ecological and cultural damages brought on by the Churchill Falls project.

In 2011, Innu Nation

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