A river of names : the multiple voices of an Innu riverscape.

Notice bibliographique

Manikiakanishtiku, Gagnon, J., Desbiens, C. et Kanapé, É. (2022). A river of names : the multiple voices of an Innu riverscape. River Research and Applications 38(3), 412-421.

Résumé

UamashtakanTekuatepeliuManishtikaushipuUashaupishkauManikuakanishtiku. I am a river of names. Like countless waterways around the world, I have been given a single official denomination—Manicouagan—by the State through the colonial renaming of land. Though the word Manicouagan derives from the original language of my People, the Pessamiulnuat (Innus of Pessamit), it carries a very small piece of my whole history and speaks with a monolithic voice. As an ancestral route connecting families to their hunting territories, each of my swirls and back eddies has something to say, witnesses to a longstanding and ongoing narrative. Going back to the meanings, practices, stories, and values that some of my People’s denominations still bear, I wish to make myself heard differently from the voices that are both theirs and mine.

Hyperlien

https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3876

Publication du membre

Caroline Desbiens

Appartenance aux volets

Année

2022