Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu = I am a damn savage ; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? = What have you done to my country? Cover Image

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Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu = I am a damn savage ; Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? = What have you done to my country? / An Antane Kapesh ; Sarah Henzi, translation from French and afterword.

Kapesh, An Antane, 1926-2004 (author.). Henzi, Sarah, 1977- (translator,, writer of afterword.).

Summary:

"In I Am a Damn Savage, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders – like herself – were aged or dying. She wanted to publicly denounce the conditions in which she and the Innu were made to live, and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory, police brutality, and the effects of the residential school system. What Have You Done to My Country? is a fictional account by a young boy of the arrival of les Polichinelles (referring to White settlers) and their subsequent assault on the land and on native language and culture. Through these stories Antane Kapesh asserts that settler society will eventually have to take responsibility and recognize its faults, and accept that the Innu – as well as all the other nations – are not going anywhere, that they are not a problem settlers can make disappear." -- amazon.com

Record details

ISBN: 9781771124089
ISBN: 1771124083
Physical Description: 310 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	Eukuan nin matshimanitu innu-iskueu previously published in Innu with French translation: Montréal: Leméac, 1976. Tanite nene etutamin nitassi? previously published under title: Tante nana etutamin nitassi? Montreal: Editions Impossibles, 1979.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Language Note:	Text in English with original Montagnais on facing pace, translated from the French.