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Accepted Paper:
From topographical to digital : Mapping Itineraries, transmitting knowledge and negotiating coexistence among the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok (Quebec, Canada)
Benoit Éthier
(Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue)
Sylvie Poirier
(Université Laval)
Paper short abstract:
This paper is about the dynamics of the entanglement of territorial regimes that coexist today within Nitaskinan (Atikamekw Nehirowisiw ancestral territory) and the challenges of indigenous cartographic productions in this context of territorial coexistence and ontological violence.
Paper long abstract:
Within Nitaskinan, the ancestral territory of the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok (North Central Quebec), the members of the nation negotiate the continuity of their practices, their occupation and their use of ancestral hunting territories with state institutions, forestry companies and members of the non-indigenous civil society. All of these actors use the same territory but with different, often divergent, interests. This presentation discusses the dynamics of the entanglement of territorial regimes that coexist today within Nitaskinan and the challenges of indigenous cartographic productions, from topographical to digital, in this context of territorial coexistence and ontological violence. Particular attention is given to the creative resistance strategies deployed by the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok through mapping, the collective revitalization of the use of waterways (mohonan) and winter trails (moteskano) and the intergenerational transmission of territorial knowledge in the contemporary context.