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January 2000
Print ISBN: 9780921881568
Overview
It's Like the Legend celebrates the storytelling traditions of Innu women from Labrador while shedding light on their efforts to preserve both their land and their traditional way of life for future generations. When NATO began carrying out low-level flight testing over Innu land, these women played a significant role in organizing acts of resistance, including civil disobedience and attracting international attention to their plight. An inspiring collection of memoirs, legends, poetry, essays, speeches, and testimonies, this text is an indispensible resource for students in courses on Indigenous studies, women's studies, and environmental studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Nympha Byrne & Camille Fouillard
Grandfather Eagle
Nympha Byrne
Mishtapeu
Shanut Rich
Women Speared the Caribou
Mary Jane Pasteen
Shaking Tents and Anik-napeu, the Toadman
Mary Madeline Nuna
Tshenut, the Elders
Mary Martha Hurley
An Orphan Grows Up
Cecile Rich
A Child Learns Respect
Elizabeth Rich
Eagle
Christine Poker
The Elders Would Never Have Allowed It
Maggie Antuan
Shushep and Me
Madeline Katshinak
Louisa
Christine Poker
It's Like the Legend
Charlotte Gregoire
I Am Rich
Nympha Byrne
Before My Father Died
Catherine Poker
The Country Is a Healing Place
Mary Jane Nui
Lonely for You
Adela Rich
I Think about These Things
Mary Georgette Mistenapeo
Child
Rose Gregoire
The Thunder and Mosquito
Nympha Byrne
Early Childhood Education
Caroline Andrew
Retracing Our Footprints
Mary Adele Andrew
To the People I Lost
Marie Pokue
This Land Is Still Our Home
Charlotte Rich
Artists Know the Spirits
Angela Andrew
I Can't Forget You
Christine Poker
Like the Gates of Heaven
Elizabeth Penashue
Life on the Edge of a Bombing Range
Mary Martha Hurley
The Trickster and the Ant
Nympha Byrne
Fifty-seven Days in Jail
Mary Martha Hurley
Life on a Roller Coaster
Cecilia Rich
Sorrow
Christine Poker
I Am My Father's Daughter
Nympha Byrne
Set My People Free
Mary Adele Andrew
I Consider Myself a Full Native
Natasha Hurley
Stories My Grandmother Told Me
Pamela Hurley
Some People Get the Order of Canada: Excerpts of Prison Writings
Rose Gregoire
The Government of Mischief
Anne Marie Andrew
Chickadee
Christine Poker
I Followed My Heart
Nympha Byrne
Almighty Woman
Nympha Byrne
In Our Culture, We Don't Sign Papers
Justine Noah Jack, Katie Rich & Nyympha Byrne
Who's Law Am I Breaking Anyway?
Christine Poker
My Dad's Moccasin
Rose Gregoire
About the Contributors
Glossary
List of Place Names
