We remember the land: Quebec geography and the question of Indigenous memory

• Published in: Cahiers de géographie du Québec
• Main Authors: Desbiens, Caroline, Rivard, Étienne, Hirt, Irène
• Other Authors: Université Laval Québec (ULaval), Passages, Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: Territory; Indigenous; visibility; place names; geosymbols; Territorio; pueblos indígenas; visibilidad; toponimia; geosímbolos; descolonización; Territoire; Autochtones; Louis-Edmond Hamelin; visibilité; toponymie; géosymboles; Québec; Canada; décolonisation; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; Etienne; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01951707; https://doi.org/10.7202/1049374ar

International audience In Quebec, many collective territorial identities coexist, but they do not all have the same visibility. In 2006, Étienne Rivard spoke of a ‘’geography of absence’’ regarding questions of Indigenous territorial identity. Starting from this premise, we explore the unevenness be...