Quebec was born in my country!: Stories of Encounters, from Ani Kuni to Kiuna.

« La vérité, c’est que je suis Québécoise, que ma famille habite leur territoire traditionnel depuis plus de 200 ans et, pourtant, je ne connais pratiquement rien d’eux et je n’en connais aucun. La vérité, c’est que j’ai honte de moi. Honte de nous. » C’est au contact des Maoris de la Nouvelle-Zélande qu’Emanuelle Dufour réalise l’ampleur de son ignorance à l’égard des Premiers Peuples du Québec.

Emanuelle Dufour is an arts educator (Ph.D., Concordia University 2021), based in Montreal and Baie St-Paul (Quebec), whose doctoral disseration, Le Québec est né dans mon pays (“Québec born in my country”), was created in the form of a graphic novel/comic book and which won the national Médaille d’or du gouverneur général for doctoral projects. The project is quoted as having been instrumental in the founding of an Indigenous student services center at the Université de Montréal. She holds master’s degrees in anthropology (U. de Montréal) and interdisciplinary arts (U. Laval), with a certificate in screenwriting from the Université du Québec à Montréal. A consultant, program coordinator, and graphic artist, Dr. Dufour has devoted the past several years of her work to creating bridges between the Indigenous and Non-Indigenous peoples of Quebec and Canada, and is currently at work on a teachers’ resource guide for middle school through university levels, on this very theme.

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Emanuelle Dufour’s research-creation project "Des histoires à raconter: D'Ani Kuni à Kiuna"