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Unsettling Spirit Unsettling Spirit A Journey into Decolonization denise m. nadeau Foreword by Deanna Reder McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago © Denise M. Nadeau 2020 isBn 978-0-2280-0157-7 (cloth) isBn 978-0-2280-0290-1 (ePdF) isBn 978-0-2280-0291-8 (ePuB) Legal deposit second quarter 2020 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Unsettling spirit : a journey into decolonization / Denise M. Nadeau ; foreword by Deanna Reder. Names: Nadeau, Denise Marie, author. Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190234482 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190234938 | isBn 9780228001577 (cloth) | isBn 9780228002901 (ePdF) | isBn 9780228002918 (ePuB) Subjects: LCsH: Nadeau, Denise Marie. | LCsH: Indigenous peoples–Canada–Social conditions. | LCsH: Decolonization–Canada. | LCsH: Decolonization–Religious aspects. | LCsH: Decolonization–Psychological aspects. | LCsH: Reconciliation–Social aspects–Canada. Classification: LCC e78.C2 n33 2020 | ddC 305.897/071–dc23 This book was designed and typeset by Peggy & Co. Design in 11/14 Minion 3. Contents Figures vii A Note on Copyright and Intellectual Property ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 3 Part One Mission Impossible 1 Missionary Musings 17 2 The Denendeh Seminar 29 3 Shifting Missions 40 Part twO The Great White Helper 4 From Taking Space to Making Space 57 5 Healing and the Politics of Trauma 69 6 Decolonizing the Great White Helper and Reconciliation 86 Part tHree Going Home: Gespe’gewa’gi 7 Blood 101 8 Unmapping 120 9 Decolonizing Rivers 141 vi Contents Part FOur Making Relations 10 Moccasins 153 11 Walking with Our Sisters 164 12 A Water Journey: Indigenous Water Laws 173 13 Ceremony 187 14 Reciprocity 206 15 Living Treaty 218 Part Five Unsettling Spirit 16 Lejac Residential School and Rose Prince 231 17 Can You Hear the Drum? Indigenous Christianities 241 18 Returning to the Heart 251 Afterword 263 Notes 271 Bibliography 295 Index 323 Figures i.1 Me in my cowgirl outfit (Denise Nadeau photo) 7 8.1 Nm’tginen map of statement of Title to Gespe’gewa’gi (Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat) 121 8.2 Picture of Indian at the Musée Maison Legrand (Denise Nadeau photo) 125 8.3 1765 map of Port Daniel (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationale du Quebec) 128 8.4 1787 map of Port Daniel (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationale du Quebec) 128 8.5 1888 map of Port Daniel (Bibliothèque et Archives Nationale du Quebec) 129 9.1 Logs under railway bridge, Port Daniel West River, 1912 (Stedman Bros, Madeleine Quesnel Postcard Collection) 146 9.2 Mi’gmaq place names along the Gesgapegiag River Watershed (Mi’gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat) 148 A Note on Copyright and Intellectual Property The author respectfully acknowledges the inherent cultural Rights and ownership of all oral histories and cultural information shared with her by Knowledge Keepers from Mi’gmaq, Coast Salish, Anishnabe, Métis, and Cree Nations. Those seeking to quote Elders and Knowledge Keepers cited here must honour these First Nations’ inherent author- ity in regard to their cultural information in their specific knowledge system and must seek permission from the author or her duly appointed representative.
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