Le métissage euro-inuit dans la sous-aire culturelle du Labrador méridional
The cultural sub-area of South Labrador includes the two sub-regions of Southern Labrador and the Straits of Belle Isle in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and that of the Lower North Shore in the Province of Québec. The three of them share in common a large number of cultural characterist...
| Published in: | Recherches amérindiennes au Québec |
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Recherches amérindiennes au Québec
2007
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7202/1081640ar http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1081640ar |
| Summary: | The cultural sub-area of South Labrador includes the two sub-regions of Southern Labrador and the Straits of Belle Isle in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and that of the Lower North Shore in the Province of Québec. The three of them share in common a large number of cultural characteristics, among others: the origin of the population; a bilocal residence pattern and the practice of transhumance; an annual cycle of many economic activities such as fishing, hunting, trapping, wood cutting, etc; and a technology with many elements borrowed from Native people like the dogsled and the snowshoe. But the most important is their biological and cultural Euro-Inuit heritage that has been hidden in the past for fear of racist stigmatisation. In the last two decades, however, there has been an appreciation of the aboriginal heritage due to the publication of the review ‘Them Days’ and by the political activities of the Labrador Metis Association (now Labrador Metis Nation) and of the Alliance autochtone du Québec which are promoting the rights of the Euro-Inuit Métis of Labrador and Québec. La sous-aire culturelle du Labrador méridional comprend les deux sousrégions du Sud-Labrador et du détroit de Belle Isle, dans la province de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador, et celle de la Basse-Côte-Nord dans la province de Québec. En effet, toutes les trois ont en commun un grand nombre de caractéristiques socioculturelles dont : l’origine du peuplement, un double habitat et la pratique de la transhumance, un cycle annuel d’activités économiques diversifiées de chasse, pêche, piégeage, coupe de bois, etc., et une technologie comprenant de nombreux emprunts aux Inuits et aux Innus. On y retrouve surtout un important métissage biologique et culturel longtemps ignoré, voire caché par peur des préjugés racistes. Depuis une vingtaine d’années on assiste à une valorisation de cet héritage métis, surtout euro-inuit, d’une part par les publications de la revue Them Days au Labrador, d’autre part par des organisations politiques ... |
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