Pessamiushkueuat utipatshimunuaua: Memories and Trajectories of Innu Women in Disrupted Landscapes

This conference will focus on the territorial upheavals caused by industrial developments in the Nitassinan (ancestral territory) of the Innu community of Pessamit, from the perspectives of those who experienced them.

More specifically, it aims to show the experiences of territorial dispossession lived by the Pessamiushkueuat (women of Pessamit). Their knowledge and stories reflect the many disruptions on their cultural landscapes caused by the cumulation of developments in the past decades.

Their stories also offer another perspective on the manifold processes of deterritorialization, but also of reterritorialization, and the ways that their relationships to the territory and landscapes are renewed and maintained. It will ultimately expose an understanding of the Nitassinan as a territory (still) lived by the Pessamiushkueuat, through examples of participatory and narrative maps.

This conference is part of the GPE Brown Bag Seminar Series. All welcome.