Participants
A total of 18 youth, aged 18 to 35, participated in the project through mapping workshops and semi-structured interviews. Two Elders accompanied them during the workshops. The youth were from the Innu, Atikamekw, Kanien'kehá:ka, Anishnabe, Dene, Waban-Aki, Wendat, Inuit and Métis Nations, and spoke either French or English as a second or first language, which explains why the audio excerpts presented in the map are sometimes in French, sometimes in English.
The excerpts presented in this map have been approved by the youth who created them and we thank them for that. Some wished to remain anonymous, others have agreed to be recognized here for their contribution.
Myriam Landry
W8banaki Nation
Craig Commanda
Anishnaabe
Johnny Boivin
Innu, Atikamekw
Carling Sioui
Wendat
Alicia Ibarra-Lemay
Kanien'kehá:ka, Chilean
Frederique Gauthier-Bisaillon
of Kanien'kehà:ka heritage from Kanesatake
Coralie Niquay
Atikamekw, Quebecer
A big thank you, migwetch, nia:wen to all!
Creative committee
A creative committee of seven youth who participated in the research was formed in the fall of 2021. They contributed to the analysis of the collected stories. The committee met in the spring of 2022 to analyze, select, and organize the compiled narratives in order to "bead" a common collective narrative. The creative committee is made up of:
Alicia Ibarra-Lemay, Kainen'kehá:ka and Chilean
Coralie Niquay, Atikamekw and Quebecer
Craig Commanda, Anishnaabe
Jennifer Buckell, Ilnu
Elisa Cohen Bucher
Alexandrine Sioui, Wendat
Carling Sioui, Wendat
Illustrator
Fabienne Théorêt-Jérôme
visual artist
Research Team
Stephane Guimont-Marceau,
Professor, INRS-UCS, member of the Mixed research unit INRS-UQAT in
Indigenous studies
Marie-Eve Drouin-Gagne
Professor, INRS-UCS, member of the INRS-UQAT Joint Research Unit in
Indigenous Studies
Coralie Niquay
Research assistant, INRS-UCS
MA Neurosciences and Public Health, University of Montreal
