"The truth is that I am a Quebecer, that my family has lived on their traditional territory for over 200 years and yet I know practically nothing about them and I don't know any of them. The truth is that I am ashamed of myself. Ashamed of us."

It was through contact with the Maoris of New Zealand that Emanuelle Dufour realized the extent of her ignorance regarding the First Peoples of Quebec. Upon her return, she undertook a long journey to meet Indigenous realities and begin a dialogue that was more necessary than ever. What do the silence about residential schools in history books and the clichés about "Indians" in popular culture reveal? How was the Oka Crisis experienced by Indigenous people? Told from her own experience but also that of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, this polyphonic work explores the legacies of our colonial unconscious and brings to light stories that have remained in the shadows for too long.

“Quebec was born in my country!” Anna Mapachee tells us, in order to reverse the mirror of our colonial history. If systemic racism still shapes the Indigenous condition, this encounter book also bears witness to the work begun by communities to reclaim their languages, ancestral knowledge and identities, among others at the Kiuna Institution in Odanak, “a school made for us.”

And you, are you ready to explore your part of history?

With authorized testimonies and quotes from Kim Angatookalook and Tristan André-Angatookalook, Michèle Audette, Terry Awashish, Eve Bastien, Lise Bastien, Louis-Xavier Bérubé, Marie-Eve Bordeleau, Jimmy-Angel Bossum, Marie-Pierre Bousquet, Sébastien Brodeur- Girard, Diane Cantin, Mikayla Cartwright, Kakwiranó:ron Cook, Emma Cuchio Antonio, Guillaume Dufour, Ellen Gabriel, Julie Gauthier, Claude Hamelin, Prudence Hannis, Sarah Hornblow, Paige Isaac, Institut Tshakapesh, Jacques Kurtness, Marcel Lalo, Léa Lefevre- Radelli, Pierre Lepage, Monica Lopez, Anna Mapachee, Lucie Martin, Pierre Martineau, Rita Mestokosho, Uapukun Mestokosho, Melissa Mollen Dupuis, Caroline Nepton Hotte, Jennifer O'Bomsawin, Annick Ottawa, Ghislain Picard, Murrray Sinclair, Geneviève Sioui, Louis-Karl Sioui-Picard, Lou Maïka Strauss and Martin Strauss, Jean-Yves Sylvestre, Myriam Thirnish, Pamela Rose Toulouse, Jacques Viens, Florent Vollant, Stanley Vollant and Xavier Vollant, Jesse Wente and several others.