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Keetsahnak: our missing and murdered indigenous sisters
With essays from Indigenous women, this book analyses colonial violence within what is now called “Canada” and provides an anti-violence model from an Indigenous perspective. (Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt eds., Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2018, 400 p. )
Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Indigenous women
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Kuessipan
This novel by Naomi Fontaine is presented as a series of prose poems which introduces the reader to the daily life on an Innu reserve and which tenderly displays, but without any concession, the character, customs, feelings, and passions of a young Innu who courageously negotiates the comings and goings between the reserve and the city, so common for the people of Uashat-Maliotenan.
Subjects: Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu-aitun, Indigenous authors
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Kukum
This novel by Innu author and journalist Michel Jean, from the Mashteuiatsh community, tells the story of the brutal sedentarization of the Innu through the unique story of his great-grandmother. This work, which won the France-Quebec Literary Prize, immerses the reader in the life of Almanda Siméon, a white woman who will choose a nomadic life by marrying an Innu from Mashteuiatsh.
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu territory, Sedentarization
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Kuujjuaq: Memories and musings
Autobiography of Kuujjuaq elder, Dorothy Mesher. (Dorothy Mesher, Duncan BC, Unica Publishing Company, 1995, 123 p.)
Subjects: Cultural identity, Indigenous authors, Inuit
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La saga des Béothuks
Historical, mythological, ethnographic, this novel is a masterful work by Bernard Assiniwi, of Cree origin, which won him the France-Quebec Jean-Hamelin Prize in 1997. It makes a fascinating contribution to the rediscovery of indigenous societies, at the same time. time it sheds light on a particularly dramatic episode in the white conquest of America.
Subjects: Colonization, Ethnology, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Mythology
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Le droit au froid : le combat d’une femme pour protéger sa culture, l’Arctique et notre planète
Climate change disrupts and threatens the Inuit way of life, their culture and their economic autonomy. Biographical story of an environmental activist (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) who wants to make climate change a Human Rights issue. French version of “The right to be cold : One woman’s story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet”. (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Montréal, Écosociété, 2019, 356 p.)
Subjects: Indigenous affairs, Indigenous authors, Inuit, Law, Climate change
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