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Hydro-Quebec's first mega-project created thousands of jobs for French-speaking Canadians and brought electricity to more than a million people.
But as it did so, it also attempted to push aside the indigenous people who were using the land that was flooded.
Through the '80s and '90s the fight against Hydro-Quebec brought one First Nation rights and prosperity unrivaled in Canada.
Now, on a very different field, another First Nation is looking to adopt their playbook.
When a disenfranchised indigenous community stands up to a corporation, what is righteous and what is wrong seems clear.
But when that fight takes place over decades, the lines start to blur.
In the middle of the last century, Québecois politicians kicked off a revolution that shaped the identity of the province we know today.
Part of that revolution was a dramatic economic move: seizing Quebec's hydro-power.