Video | 1:00:06 Indigenous Voices of Today : Virtual tour in Innu-aimun with Charles-Api Bellefleur
Watch the virtual tour in innu-aimun of the exhibition Indigenous Voices of Today : Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience
October 5, 2022
Uiapataniuenanut innu Pietakushit kashikanit : tshissenitamun, meshta-ishpitikut auen tshekuannu, uenikapaunanut anu peikumitashumitannu tshekuana mamushatshinakanua anite Cultures autochtones du Musée McCord Stewart, anite Munianit. Tshikanakutaueu innua eshinniuniti ute Uepishtikueiau-assit utshissenitamunnua mak eshi-kukuetshimitishuniti innua mak anite nikan eshi-uapataminiti. Minu-tshitapatamupan ue Jean-St-Onge tan tshe ishi-naushunakaniti tshekuana, anite etusset Shaputuanit ka ashu-patshitinakanit aitun, menu-tshitapatak mak niashak eshi-pimuteniti innua tshetshi nishtutakanit inniun eshpitashkamikat.
Tshetshi tshitapatakanit ne kauapataniuenanut, anite takuan kashekushimakaniht peikutipaikana pemipanit anite innu-aimunit uiapataniuenanut peikushteu tshekuana, innuat eshinniuht nenua iapashtaht. Charles-Api Bellefleur nenu kassinu uauitamu, tshuapatamuananu uin eshi-uapatak eitapashtakannit, eshi-tutakannit mak eshi-tshisssenitak kassinu nenua tshekuana uiauitakanniti.
Charles-Api Bellefleur eukuan kanataut, kauapekaitshesht mak nikan ka tshitapatak eishpannit. Eukuan uin, mashten anitshenat etashiht innuat ka tipatshimuht, e ashu-patshitinak tipatshimuna ka ashu-uitamatunanut shash pet 9 000 tatupipuna. Uin takunamu tshissenitamunnu eishinakuannit tshekuannu anite tshishikut uetshenat innuat ka pet tshitapatahk shash mitshet tatutshishemitashumitannuepipuna.
Ne atusseun shetshen minakanuat innuat Uepishtikueiau-assit ka taht tshetshi tshitapatahk mak tshetshi ut uetshiuht tshetshi nishtutahk nenua tshekuana eshi-uauitakanniti mak kanapua innu-aimun tshetshi inniuimakak.
Informations about the virtual tour
The exhibition Indigenous Voices of Today: Knowledge, Trauma, Resilience features over a hundred objects from the Indigenous Cultures collection of the McCord Stewart Museum in Montreal. It highlights the knowledge and philosophies of Quebec’s Indigenous nations. The objects were carefully selected by Innu Jean St-Onge, of the Maison de transmission de la culture innue Shaputuan, who took an approach inspired by Indigenous methods of understanding the world through observation.
The virtual tour of the exhibition takes the form of a one-hour video in Innu-aimun, presenting a selection of nine objects from the exhibition, used by Innu peoples. Through Charles-Api Bellefleur’s commentary, the tour reveals his perspective on the use, fabrication and knowledge surrounding these objects.
Charles-Api Bellefleur is a hunter, musician and dreamer. He is also one of the last storytellers of the Innu oral tradition, which goes back 9000 years. He is the custodian of a complete cosmogony forged by the Innu people over millennia.
The project is offered free of charge to Innu communities across Quebec, to facilitate access to the objects and contribute to the vitality of Innu-aimun.
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