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Quessipan is a moving book that introduces us to the everyday life of the Innu Indian reservation. With graceful and precise language, Naomi Fontaine describes this exotic reality for European readers. In the Innu language, "kuessipan" means "you" or "your turn". Places and faces, familiar and beloved. Nomadic hunters. Nostalgic fishermen. Portraits. Rituals."
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novel about men and women who fight for their own history every day.
About her world, about her students, who want to take responsibility for their own lives. It is quietly and polyphonically about struggle and hope.