From Poisson Road to Poison Road: Mapping the Toxic Trail of Windigo Capital in Linda Hogan's <em>Solar Storms</em>

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From Poisson Road to Poison RoadMapping the Toxic Trail of Windigo Capital in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms Desiree Hellegers (bio) When the government-owned public utility Hydro-Québec began constructing the three-phase James Bay Project in 1971, the James Bay Cree (Eeyou Istchee), the Indigenous inhabitants of thousands of square miles of land to be submerged by the project, were among the last to get word of it. In the absence of an environmental impact study,1 public hearings, or even notification of the plans, the Crees learned about the La Grande Project—the first phase of the James Bay Project—from a 1971 radio broadcast of a press conference announcing the project already underway. At the press conference, Robert Bourassa, the premier of Quebec and self-described “Conqueror of the North,” heralded the plans for “the project of the century” (Richardson 81). Bourassa’s modernist embrace of what remains one of the largest earth-moving projects in history markedly contrasts with the d

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