| Summary: | The Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Atikamekw Nation today has approximately 8,000 members, who live mainly in the communities of Wemotaci, Opticiwan, and Manawan, located in Central Quebec (Canada), in the Haute-Mauricie and Lanaudière regions. The Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok Atikamekw have never ceded their territory and sovereignty and continue, in the contemporary neo-colonial context and despite growing constraints, to maintain their relations with the Nitaskinan, their ancestral territory, and to transmit their own knowledge. As part of this research and during a field trip to the community of Manawan in the summer of 2019, I became interested in some of the initiatives implemented by the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok to maintain and affirm these relationships and promote the intergenerational transmission of local knowledge. Among other things, it is a question of the cartographies developed by the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok as well as the tourism set up in Manawan. This brief thus attempts to highlight some of the challenges and stakes that the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok encounter in their identity affirmation and the implementation of their life projects. La Nation autochtone atikamekw nehirowisiw compte aujourd’hui environ 8000 membres, qui vivent principalement dans les communautés de Wemotaci, Opticiwan, et Manawan, situées au Centre du Québec (Canada), dans les régions de la Haute-Mauricie et de Lanaudière. Les Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok n’ont jamais cédé leur territoire et leur souveraineté et continuent, dans le contexte néocolonial contemporain et en dépit des contraintes grandissantes, de maintenir leurs relations au Nitaskinan, leur territoire ancestral, et de transmettre leurs savoirs propres. Dans le cadre de cette recherche et lors d’un terrain à la communauté de Manawan à l’été 2019, je me suis intéressée à certaines des initiatives mises en œuvre par les Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok afin de maintenir et d’affirmer ces relations et de favoriser la transmission intergénérationnelle des savoirs locaux. Il est entre autres ...
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