Quebec Was Born in My Country! : A Diary of Encounters Between Indigenous and Québécois Peoples

Emanuelle Dufour

ISBN 10: 1771126779 / ISBN 13: 9781771126779

Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware - This graphic non-fiction explores the history of (non-)encounters between Indigenous and Québécois peoples, as well as the very specific linguistic and historical mainstream narratives that make up the province's internal tensions.

Seller Inventory # 9781771126779

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quebec Was Born in My Country! : A Diary of Encounters Between Indigenous and Québécois Peoples
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771126779
• ISBN 13: 9781771126779
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 294W x 219H x 14D millimeters 294 millimeters width by 219 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 772 grams

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Synopsis

"Québec Was Born in My Country!" is a polyphonic work that explores the legacies of colonial unconsciousness and brings to light stories that have remained in the shadows for too long. In conversation with community members, Elders, spokespeople, students, professionals, and families, Emanuelle Dufour and her co-creators address the settler silence in Quebec regarding residential schools and ongoing colonialism, systemic racism, and inadequate curricular material in schools.

Through her drawings, Dufour visually represents herself and her co-creators recounting their experiences, interrogating early post-contact and recent history, and collectively advocating for the importance of Indigenous cultural security within the education system. Their presence is central, and their voices carry the narrative.

"I was not born in Québec. Québec was born in my country!" educator Anna Mapachee tells us, correcting colonial history. Although systemic racism still shapes Indigenous realities, this diary of encounters bears witness to the work begun by communities to reclaim their languages, ancestral knowledges, and identities.

About the Authors

Emanuelle Dufour lives in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec. She holds a master's degree in Anthropology (Université de Montréal) and a PhD in Art Education (Concordia University). Her doctoral in research-(co)creation earned her the Governor General's Gold Medal and the COHDS Distinction Award in Oral History. She is a postdoctoral fellow (Université Laval), graphic facilitator and lecturer, and has worked with Indigenous Peoples for more than 12 years.

Sarah Henzi is a settler scholar and Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures in the Department of French and the Department of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Her translation of An Antane Kapesh’s Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? (1979) was published in 2020 with Wilfrid Laurier University Press as I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?