To regain lost rights, the First Peoples conduct studies and make news stories and presentations to raise awareness among all Quebeckers about situations they are experiencing. These situations are often very different from those encountered by non-Aboriginal people, such as living conditions on the reserves and situations related to education. As part of this movement, Aboriginal youth participate in mobile Wapikoni workshops to make films about their lives.
The Aboriginal peoples also negotiate with governments to recover the right to manage their affairs through band councils and community or national organizations. Over time, Aboriginal people have thus recovered a number of rights, such as the right to hunt moose on their land.
However, there are still many rights to be recovered and the First Peoples continue to negotiate to make this can happen. They want to manage their own economic, social and cultural development. For example, they want to manage projects such as road construction on their lands in order to create jobs. They want to own their ancestral lands, which would allow them to make decisions about natural resources.