Le coureur des bois et le Nutshimiu-innu

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|2022|52 min

Filmmaker Éli Laliberté explores Nitassinan, an Innu territory north of Sept-Îles. His camera follows Clément and Tekuanan. The first is a modern-day coureur des bois, the other returns to Nutshimit, his ancestral family territory.

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