Elizabeth Penashue: Diary of an Innu Elder

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations

Portions of this episode contain dialogue in the Innu language. For reasons of length, we have shortened the portions in Innu for English speakers. The transcript for the episode is available here.

If you would like to hear the episode with the full Innu language dialogue left intact, please click please click here (link to YouTube video - audio only). Unfortunately, we can't yet offer a transcript of the portions that are in the Innu language.

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. All TPL print and other in-branch materials will be available once we re-open and are operating under normal conditions.

Books by Tsaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue:

Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep The Land Alive

Books or Materials About Activism

When They Call You a Terrorist: a Black Lives Matter Memoir by PatrisseKhan-Cullors (audiobook) (ebook available here)

She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Changed the World (ebook)

Indigenous Women, Work and History (ebook)

Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance by Allison Hargreaves (ebook)

Books or Other Materials about the Innu

Innu of Labrador (link opens an article on the Virtual Museum of Labrador)

Innu People: A History (link opens a Youtube video on Indigenous Americans)

Peoples: Innu (link opens an article on Circum-Arctic Gallery)

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