I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?: Eukuan Nin Matshi-Manitu Innushkueu; Tanite Nene Etutamin Nitassi? Antane Kapesh An

Quebec author An Antane Kapesh's two books, Je suis une maudite sauvagesse (1976) and Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays? This English translation of these works, each page presented facing the revised Innu text, makes them available for the first time to a broader readership.In I Am a Damn Savage, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders - like herself - were aged or dying. (1979), are among the foregrounding works by Indigenous women in Canada.

What Have You Done to My She wanted to publicly denounce the conditions in which she and the Innu were made to live, and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory, police brutality, and the effects of the residential school system.