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Présentation : écrire les voix du territoire. L’écrit à la lumière de l’oralité

Laurent Jérôme and Sylvie Loslier

Exotopie, transmission des savoirs et anthropologie partagée chez les Ibaloi des Philippines

Frédéric Laugrand
Based on several intergenerational knowledge-transmission workshops organized among the Ibaloi people of Upper Loacan, in the central Cordillera region of the Philippines, this paper advocates for an anthropological approach understood as exotopy and views the anthropologist as a kind of midwife of knowledge. It highlights the Ibaloi community’s very positive reception to these workshops, held between 2012 and 2023, in a context of significant transformation of traditional knowledge. The article also emphasizes how these activities—bringing together elders and youth through stories and ritual practices—serve not only to transmit indigenous knowledge but also to pass on anthropological insights to participants and interpreters, who act as essential cultural mediators.

La tradition orale et l’écriture d’un projet de constitution : apports et défis dans le cas de la démarche constitutionnelle des Pekuakamiulnuatsh

Doris Farget, Hélène Boivin and Stacy Bossum
Several authors have already demonstrated that oral tradition is a source of normativity in indigenous contexts. Others have also shown that such norms can be untied from the representation of a written text, and that the forms (oral or written) that indigenous constitutionalism takes vary according to context and community. Our article will answer the following questions: how, and in what ways, can the writing of a constitution be supported by elements of oral tradition? In doing so, what contributions and what challenges arise? We will answer these questions based on perspectives from members of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation encountered as part of a partnership research project entitled Tan tshe eishi nashekanitsh ka ui pukuhutishunanuatsh Pekuakamiulnuatsh – Vers une constitution des Pekuakamiulnuatsh, which ran from 2021 to 2023 in collaboration with the Governance support office of Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan.

L’histoire des écritures innues, de Marie Outchiouanish à Joséphine Bacon

Émile Duchesne
Like many elders of the Innu nation, Joséphine Bacon points out in her very first career poetry collection that “We are a people with an oral tradition. Today, we know how to write”. Research into archives and Innu oral tradition has shown that this is a very old “today”. This article, a tribute to the work and career of poet Joséphine Bacon, traces the adoption of writing by the North Shore Innu from their earliest contacts with Europeans. The starting point for this investigation is a writing lesson given to the author by Kanikuen, an elder of Unamen Shipu, who demonstrated a form of Innu writing that is little known to non-natives, and which bears witness to the inventiveness of the Innu in adapting the practice of writing.

De poésie à théorie : les langues autochtones au coeur des affirmations de souveraineté visuelle et narrative

Caroline Nepton Hotte
The importance of stories and orality – or ‘storytelling’ – is emphasized in Indigenous studies. These fields encourage the use of storytelling not only as a research methodology but also as a source of inspiration for theoretical frameworks. In 1992, Stó:lō Nation scholar and writer Lee Maracle wrote that stories constitute theories in oral form, thereby disrupting traditional power dynamics between Indigenous peoples and academic research methodologies. Inspired by this idea, this article seeks to celebrate the creativity and wisdom of Joséphine Bacon by using one of her poems as both a conceptual framework and a methodological motif to interpret artworks created by Indigenous women. The goal is to explore how these artists assert Indigenous women’s sovereignty through visual art by employing an analytical method rooted in Indigenous epistemologies – in this case, Joséphine Bacon’s poetry. Drawing on works from my doctoral research, I apply Maracle’s proposition in practice. I first detail my grounded and reflective research process. Then, I explain how I conceive of my interpretive framework. Finally, I analyze two digital and media artworks and show how the language and creative expressions of the artists resonate with Joséphine Bacon’s poetry. Like her writing, these works serve as poetic and political markers of Indigenous sovereignty.

Le silence dans la poésie de Joséphine Bacon

Daniel Chartier
The emergence of written literature by the First Nations in Québec is relatively recent, although they have established themselves as a literary field in their own right in the 21st century. Joséphine Bacon’s work, with its rare depth, lies at the heart of this contemporary phenomenon and is its beacon. If silence is part of the images of the North, to which Innu literature contributes, it is also an integral part of Joséphine Bacon’s work, so much so that it can be considered ‘constitutive’ of it. It can be the language of silence, of imposed silence, of silence broken to open the way for expression as an act of resistance and transmission, or the silence that combines, on the tundra, poetry, the sound of the drum and the voices of the elders. The aim of this article is to understand the role and functions of silence (and, conversely, of speaking out and valuing sacred practices) in Joséphine Bacon’s poetry.

À la rencontre de Joséphine, Shushepin ou Bibitte : une Innue, porteuse d’histoire, aux multiples talents et aux milles parcours

Sylvie Loslier

Pas aphones

Lenous Guillaume-Suprice

Pour Bibitte

Chloé Sainte-Marie

Toi ma grande soeur

Rita Mestokosho

Pour Joséphine

Katia Rock

Une kukum pour le Niska, pour l’UQAM et pour le « Québec »

Xan Choquet

Ghislain Picard raconte sa tante Joséphine : une rassembleuse

Ghislain Picard

Une rockeuse imprégnée d’Esprits : portrait de Joséphine Bacon

Laure Morali

Le festin de Bibitte

André Dudemaine

Utshimashkuess, la pacifique guerrière des Innuat

Anne Panasuk

Devenir une alliée, au-delà des mots

Annie Nantel

Médiagraphie de l’oeuvre de Joséphine Bacon

Sylvie Loslier and Éric Chalifoux

Joséphine Bacon … et le rire précolombien

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« Les règles s’appliquent. Ce n’est pas la boucherie » : les enjeux de gestion collaborative et de partage des territoires de chasse entre les peuples autochtones et le gouvernement du Québec

François-Xavier Cyr, Edith Bélanger, Nathalie Lewis, Rachel Pelletier and Sébastien Brodeur-Girard
The development of wildlife management in Quebec over the last few centuries has contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples’ territories. Today, however, there is a legislative instrument in Quebec that explicitly aims to contribute to more equitable access to wildlife resources for Indigenous peoples. Since 1995, the Act respecting the protection and development of wildlife in Quebec has enabled agreements to be signed between the Quebec government and Indigenous communities, in order to bring their members’ hunting, fishing and trapping activities for ritual, alimentary or social purposes into line with Quebec legislation. The aim of this article is to take a critical look at these agreements, to understand the extent to which they can or cannot contribute to improving territorial cohabitation between Quebec and Indigenous peoples.

Daniel Chevrier (1950-2025)

La société Recherches autochtones au Québec

Alliance et traités avec les peuples autochtones du Québec. L’histoire de la Première Nation Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk : la nation malécite du Saint-Laurent, Camil Girard et Carl Brisson. Presses de l’Université Laval, Québec, 2021, 365 p.

Jean-Rémi Carbonneau

Les jeunesses autochtones au Québec : décolonisation, fierté et engagement, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen et Véronique Picard, dir. Presses de l’Université Laval, Québec, 2024, 261 p.

Camille Ouellet

Lessons from Fort Apache. Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance, M. Eleanor Nevins. New Edition, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2024, 282 p.

Laurence Delpérié

Les Natchez. Une histoire coloniale de la violence, Gilles Havard. Tallandier, Paris, 2024, 604 p.

Maxence Terrollion

Portages. Découvertes en pays autochtones, Paul Dionne. Québec, Septentrion, 2025, 196 p.

Robert Lanari