A Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s
great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic
change in an Innu community. Kukum recounts the story of Almanda
Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love
with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes
on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept
her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live
a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed
on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the
novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as
Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement
to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential
schools. Kukum intimately expresses the importance of Innu
ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to
this day.
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