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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.

Publication Info. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019.

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 Granby, F.H. Cossitt Branch - Adult  305.48 PEN    Check Shelf
Description xxviii, 244 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22 cm.
Series Contemporary studies on the North, 1928-1722 ; 7
Contemporary studies on the North ; 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Form Issued also in electronic formats.
Language Diaries translated from the original Innu-aimun.
Subject Penashue, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth, 1944- -- Diaries.
Women political activists -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador -- Diaries.
Innu Indians -- Diaries.
Labrador (N.L.) -- History -- 20th century.
Labrador (N.L.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Innu Indians -- Biography.
Innu Indians -- Social life and customs.
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Women political activists. (OCoLC)fst01178374
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Labrador. (OCoLC)fst01245664
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Diaries.
Added Author Yeoman, Elizabeth, 1953- editor.
Added Title I keep the land alive
Other Form: Penashue, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth, 1944- Nitinikiau innusi. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019 0887555845 9780887555848 (OCoLC)1078878616
Online version: Penashue, Tshaukuesh Elizabeth, 1944- Nitinikiau innusi. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2019 0887555845 9780887555848 (OCoLC)1078878616
ISBN 9780887558405 (softcover)
0887558402 (softcover)
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