Naomi Fontaine wishes to talk about the Innu, to present them, beyond the statistics. Throughout the pages of her novel Shuni, she teaches the reader to know them.
Before the pandemic, poets Joséphine Bacon and Laure Morali led writing workshops in the 10 Innu communities of Quebec. The result is 350 pages of poems written by children and teenagers, presented in Innu-aimun and French.
The writer Zebedee Nungak, who took part in the negotiations for the James Bay Agreement, presents the point of view of the Inuit and clearly shows that the latter, without any way of expressing their opposition, were the big losers in all this case.
With Kukum, Michel Jean, one of the male voices of Innu literature, has achieved something that no documentary, report or history book can ever do: truly touch people’s hearts.
Innu poet and director Joséphine Bacon published Un thé dans la tundra in 2014, a magnificent collection of poems in French and Innu.
The father of reportage comics, Joe Sacco, looks at the plight of the Dene Nation in the Northwest Territories. Based on journalistic interviews conducted on site, the cartoonist paints a detailed and balanced portrait of the Dene.
Wildhood, by two-spirit Micmac director Bretten Hannam, deals with homosexuality among the native people. It’s about a relationship between two two-spirit Mi’kmaq teens from Nova Scotia.
Surrounded by close friends and walking on the territory of her Innu ancestors, the poet Joséphine Bacon, 73, looks back on the major events that have marked her life and on her relentless quest to bring to life and preserve her language and culture.
Pour toi Flora retraces the journey of young Anishinaabe torn from their parents and placed under the authority of the Oblates, in the heart of the 1960s, with the aim of being assimilated and evangelized.
With Nikamo, the rapper from Pikogan, a small Aboriginal community in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, offers a first album almost entirely in the Anishinaabemowin language.
With Dreamweaver, a rich debut album with contemporary sounds, and the SOCAN Foundation Indigenous Songwriter Award under her arm, young singer Anachnid is just beginning to surprise us.
Classically trained tenor Jeremy Dutcher set out to musically update and extend recordings made in his community, the Wolastoqiyik Nation, between 1907 and 1914.
Florent Vollant is co-artistic director of the album Chansons unifiers (Nikamu Mamuitun), which brings together the joint works of eight young Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
Even if life is hard, even if life is unfair, even if life can be cruel, the Atikamekw artist first seeks light.
