Mononk Jules, by Jocelyn Sioui (Hannenorak)
” It’s a super interesting book. Jocelyn is also Wendat, but he is not someone I knew; I took pleasure in discovering him through his book because it tells the story of his great-uncle, Jules Sioui. He was one of the first indigenous activists in the province and an important figure in the question of the self-determination of peoples, one of the first to claim, among other things, the right of indigenous people not to go to World War II. […] For years he went against the grain; it was a rebel. Even in his community he was viewed in a special way, but in my opinion he was just a little ahead of his time. ”
Mononk Jules
Jocelyn Sioui
Hannenorak editions
332 pages
Waswanipi, by Jean-Yves Soucy (Boréal)
” [L’auteur] is now deceased, but he recounts when he was 18; he went to Cree territory between Chibougamau and Val-d’Or for a summer job where he was a fire ranger. There were two Crees who served as guides and he recounts this encounter he had with the Aboriginals, a real encounter with them, but also with a territory, with the way they did things differently, how it was. marked and it colored his outlook for the rest of his life. It’s a tiny little book that I loved. It also tells, among other things, the story of the Saganash. ”
Waswanipi
Jean-Yves Soucy
Boreal
120 pages
To come to the world, by Alexis de Gheldere (Leméac)
“This is his first book; he is a director and journalist, he worked among others for the Wapikoni mobile. What I liked is that it’s a book that is very generous, very intimate, very close to the character. […] It’s fictionalized, but it’s still based on real events; it is the story of the relationship between a son and his father, the story of his family, too, which is half Belgian. It’s really a story which is special, but which speaks a lot about childhood, of how we build ourselves and how we discover ourselves. It did me a lot of good. It also speaks of abandonment in a way that is very human. ”
To come to the world,
Alexis de Gheldere
Lemeac
352 pages
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