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Author Penashue, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth, 1944- author.

Title Nitinikiau innusi : I keep the land alive / Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue ; edited by Elizabeth Yeoman
Published Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 244 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Series Contemporary studies on the north ; 7
Contemporary studies on the North ; 7.
Contents Intro; Prologue; Introduction; Map; Part One: 1987-1989; Part Two: 1990-1997; Part Three: 1998-2001; Part Four: 2002-2016; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of Places; List of People; Notes; Bibliography
Summary "Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University, she has been a subject of documentary films, books, and numerous articles. She led the Innu campaign against NATO's low-level flying and bomb testing on Innu land during the 1980s and '90s, and was a key respondent in a landmark legal case in which the judge held that the Innu had the "colour of right" to occupy the Canadian Forces base in Goose Bay, Labrador. Over the past twenty years she has led walks and canoe trips in nutshimit, "on the land," to teach people about Innu culture and knowledge. Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive began as a diary written in Innu-aimun, in which Tshaukuesh recorded day-to-day experiences, court appearances, and interviews with reporters. Tshaukuesh has always had a strong sense of the importance of documenting what was happening to the Innu and their land. She also found keeping a diary therapeutic, and her writing evolved from brief notes into a detailed account of her own life and reflections on Innu land, culture, politics, and history. Beautifully illustrated, this work contains numerous images by professional photographers and journalists as well as archival photographs and others from Tshaukuesh's own collection. "Tshaukuesh's diary is sad, funny, resolute, eloquent, and real. Anyone interested in Innu traditional life and the struggle of the Innu today will want to read about the life of an Innu woman who fights for her people and the land, and who never, ever gives up." Julie Rak, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Diaries translated from the original Innu-aimun
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 31, 2019)
Subject Penashue, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth, 1944- -- Diaries
Women political activists -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
Social conditions
Women political activists
SUBJECT Labrador (N.L.) -- History -- 20th century
Labrador (N.L.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Diaries
History
Form Electronic book
Author Yeoman, Elizabeth, 1953- editor.
LC no. 2019401132
ISBN 9780887555848
0887555845
0887555829
9780887555824
9780887558405
0887558402