Table of Contents

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Essipiunnuat, the Salmon War and cultural oblivion 2. The sources of war: colonialism and the emergence of collective agency 3. Capturing who we were: heroic postures in tragic circumstances 4. Stories on the transformative experience of war: from self-empowermentto a metaphysics of domination 5. The Essipiunnuat’s actuality in light of the past Conclusion Postface | Heirs of oblivion: leaders’ interiority as a public issueBibliography Annex 1 – Methodological notes 

About the Author

Pierrot Ross-Tremblay is a professor at the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Reviews

"On almost every page of 'Thou Shalt Forget' Pierrot Ross Tremblay reveals himself as someone deeply engaged (and enraged) with what is happening to indigenous peoples today. Tremblay joins several important scholars such as Taiaiake Alfred, Val Napoleon and the late Vine Deloria on shining a light on the paradoxes of indigenous sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonialism. He is one of the few scholars defending an indigenous perspective in Quebec and bringing it into wider public debate."
 -Professor Colin Samson (University of Essex)

"Sheds new light on Quebec's colonial past and the emergency of Euro-Quebec nationalist myth."
 -Anthropology and Societies