A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the InnuBased on extensive historical research and fieldwork in Labrador over many years, A Way of Life that Does not Exist brings to light the scale of the tragedies that have overtaken the Innu, giving rise to international human rights concerns. Colin Samson looks in detail at Innu relations with the Canadian state, developers, explorers, missionaries, educators, health-care professionals, and the justice system. Although the Innu have lost land and lives in the attempts to assimilate them, Samson demonstrates that many have also resisted the official state policy of ‘extinguishment’ through both political channels and by maintaining a resilient belief in their distinctiveness and their attachment to the land. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
Burdens on the Crown | 27 |
The Map Precedes the Territory | 57 |
Odes to Labrador | 87 |
The Evolution of Civilization and Toil | 124 |
Ashamed and Confused | 156 |
Teaching Lies | 185 |
We Are Always Sick | 222 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal title Akaneshau alcohol American animals anthropologist Ashini authorities band council British camp Canada Canadian caribou century Churchill Churchill Falls coast colonial context court Crown cultural Davis Inlet disease drinking English Eskimo Euro-Canadian European families Fort Chimo gas-sniffing Goose Bay Grenfell healing hunters ibid Indians indigenous Innu children Innu land Innu language Innu Nation Innu-aimun Inuit judge kids Labrador Labrador-Quebec peninsula land claims landscape language living low-level flying M'Lean maps ment missionaries Montagnais Mushuau Innu Naskapi Native Nechi negotiations Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador Nitassinan nomadic non-Innu North West River nurses nutshimit parents Peenamin McKenzie Penashue policies political Pone population Press priests Quebec RCMP Rich sedentarization settlement settlers sexual abuse Sheshatshiu social society sovereignty stories suicide teachers tent territory tion told trade treaties Tshenut Utshimassits villages Voisey's Bay William Duncan Strong young Innu
References to this book
The Reinvention of Primitive Society: Transformations of a Myth Adam Kuper No preview available - 2005 |
Every Grain of Sand: Canadian Perspectives on Ecology and Environment J.A. Wainwright Limited preview - 2004 |