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- Title
La rivière Romaine en chantier : Transformations contemporaines des territorialités des Innus d'Ekuanitshit.
- Authors
Desmeules, Alexia; Guimond, Laurie
- Abstract
Damming the Romaine River: Contemporary transformations of Ekuanitshit Innu's territorialities Since 2009, Innu members of the community of Ekuanitshit have faced a major hydroelectric project on the Romaine River, an integral part of the Nitassinan, their ancestral territory. In this paper, we study the project's impacts on the material and ideational relationship the Innu have with the river. We explore the idea that the project transforms the traditional relationship to territory into a more pragmatic one, marked by economic and political interests. Our analysis reveals that the Innu's territorialities, though partly transformed by increased contact—and sometimes conflict—with hegemonic non‐indigenous society, remain anchored in a strong cultural heritage and a deep identification with territory. We argue that these seemingly differentiated conceptualizations, of traditions on the one hand and development on the other, are not incompatible. These conceptualizations comprise dynamic cultural, social, and political territorialities which are thus internal and external, ancestral and contemporary. Messages clés: Les projets d'exploitation des ressources naturelles nordiques, de par leur déploiement dans des territoires autochtones ancestraux, transforment les territorialités des communautés autochtones qui y habitent.Les territorialités des Innus d'Ekuanitshit, en partie transformées depuis l'arrivée du mégaprojet hydroélectrique sur la rivière Romaine, demeurent ancrées dans une identification profonde au territoire.Ces conceptions en apparence différenciées, de traditions et de modernité, composent des territorialités hybrides : internes et externes; ancestrales et contemporaines; culturelles, sociales et politiques.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Quebec); CULTURAL property; STREAM restoration
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2019, Vol 63, Issue 2, p198
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12489