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-- The Abenaki2013., 16 Call No: NEW DVD 971 M165a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the Abenaki - People of the Dawn, the first film in G. Scott MacLeod animated Canadian history series, it is Joe Obomsawin's intimate knowledge of the back roads and hidden trails on the frontiers of Quebec and New England that narrowly saves a group of bootleggers from capture. The escape also provides the impetus for his character's powerful and deeply personal retelling of the history of his people. Huddled around a fire in a remote cabin, Obomsawin unfolds the tragic, improbable and inspiring story of the Abenaki nation, reduced from 50,000 to some 1,500 over a few hundred years of colonial settlement. A collaboration between director and animator G. Scott MacLeod and author and storyteller Mike Burns from Burns' series The Water of Life, The Abenaki - People of the Dawn fuses traditional pencil animation with new digital media to tell the harrowing tale of a people's struggle for survival.
![L'Abenaki = The Abenaki [DVD] (2013) Directed by G. Scott Macleod : Peuple de l'Aube = People of the Dawn](/Library/images/~imageCT103079.JPG "L'Abenaki = The Abenaki [DVD] (2013) Directed by G. Scott Macleod : Peuple de l'Aube = People of the Dawn")
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2021., 80 min, Microclimat Call No: IND DVD Fic Bootleg Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two radically opposed women quickly divide an Indigenous community into two sides who must then come face to face to determine the best path to independence.
![Bootlegger [DVD] (2021). Directed by Caroline Monnet](/Library/images/~imageCT102351.JPG "Bootlegger [DVD] (2021). Directed by Caroline Monnet")
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2017., Exile Editions Call No: NEW QWF IND Fic Pic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In his first collection of stories, The Chronicles of Kitchike: Taking a Hard Fall, Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui takes us on a journey into the heart of a very colourful Indigenous community where traditions, dreams, deprivation and, yes, corruption exist side by side.With image-laden language, he plunges us into the daily life of ordinary men and women facing political, economic, and mythical forces beyond their control. With wry humour and a touch of the fantastic, the author depicts the sometimes tense relationships in Southern Quebec's communities, allowing a snapshot of our multicultural society to be seen between the lines The Chronicles of Kitchike transports us to a unique universe, to a world that is not only comical but also gentle and replete with legend, home to a panoply of characters we're not likely to soon forget!
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2013., General, Arsenal Pulp Press Call No: IND Fic Fon Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author depicts a community of nomadic hunters and fishers, and of hard-working mothers and their children, enduring a harsh, sometimes cruel reality with quiet dignity.
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2023., Adult, Arachnide Call No: NEW IND Fic Jea Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean's great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.
