Natasha Kanapé Fontaine • Marcel Pititkwew • Jean Sioui • Uashteskun Perspectives on Francophone Indigenous literatures
When: 12.10.2026 21:00
Where: 48.872399, 2.312414
Organizer: Admin
The Canadian Cultural Center invites you to discover four great francophone Indigenous literary voices from Canada, the Innu poet and multidisciplinary artist Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, the Atikamekw author Marcel Pititkwew, the Wendat poet and novelist Jean Sioui and Uashteskun, Pekuakamiulnuatsh author.
Presented in collaboration with Prise de parole (Ontario), Hannenorak (Québec) and Dépaysage (France), this meeting also offers the opportunity to reflect on the contexts of creation and circulation of contemporary Indigenous literatures.
Natasha Kanapé Fontaine Manifesto Assi – Dépaysage editions
Assi, the Earth, calls us. The poet hears it: she beats the rhythm, gathers and opens the circle. A voice emerges from the territory, carries mothers, sisters, the missing, and blows on the law‑papers to the fire that delivers. We move forward drum‑heart, with wolves, dreamed bison, rivers that whisper our names. The poet hears them: she fights while laughing, she heals while walking, she loves while resisting. And she offers us the most beautiful of manifestos: to rise, to live, to remake people.
A speaking out that is both poetic and political. A deeply embodied voice that questions the territory, language, memory and our way of inhabiting the world.
Marcel Pititkwew – Atcakoc, forgiveness – Dépaysage editions
In this narrative at the crossroads of tale, testimony and spiritual journey, Marcel Pitikwew tells the healing path of Tcikapec, a man ravaged by alcohol, boarding‑school violence and shame. Guided by Atcakoc, a child‑spirit, he undertakes a rise that passes through ceremonies, memory, forgiveness and reconciliation with his own.
Carried by a simple and lived language, this rare text gives direct space to Indigenous spirituality and shows, without didacticism, how a broken existence can find a path of love, truth and transmission.
Jean Sioui Yändata’.
Eternity at the end of my street – Dépaysage editions
“I grew up with my memories. Happy memories. My Indian father. My white mother. Grand‑ma tea. The uncle with gin and the other with women. The cured and the witches who were two kind ladies. The genealogy of Sioui, Gros‑Louis, Picard, Vincent, Laveau, Lainé, Savard, Romain, Bastien. Pauls who age with invented names that the world can articulate. Then all those who entered our home like that. The happy fantasy of an old time. A past that built me. A world of traditions. A world I received and now leave as a legacy.”By fragments, as one opens a memory box, Jean Sioui recomposes an intimate territory, Yändata’, made of faces, gestures, legends and dramas, where tenderness never erases lucidity. Between burlesque and tragic, he affirms a simple thing: one can be shaken, wounded, but with the help of one’s own, one learns to stay standing.
Uashteskun L’Amie de mon père – éditions Dépaysage
2022. Maria, 14, is sure of one thing: her father hates her. Forced to spend the summer in Pimitshuan, she suffocates under his silences and prohibitions. And there is especially that place he avoids at all costs, which of course she rushes to: the memorial. A white cross. Fifty-three names. And an inscription: “In memory of the victims of the fire at Sainte-Anne church, July 26, 1982”.
A sensitive and accessible youth novel that addresses filiation, transmission and identity construction with finesse.
The meeting is hosted by Marie Jouvin, journalist at Lire Magazine and followed by a sales and signing session in collaboration with the librairie du Québec in Paris.
Tags: author talk, indigenous, reading, literature
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/natasha-kanape-fontaine-marcel-pititkwew-jean-sioui-uashteskun-regards-sur-les-litteratures-autochtones-francophones-117515
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