{"id":713,"date":"2017-04-17T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/naskapis\/02-prologue\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T19:11:29","slug":"02-prologue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/naskapis\/02-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"02 &#8211; Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PROLOGUE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The past tells us a story. This story is white. It transpires submission. As they say, <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"When the missionaries came out to the Cree territory, they told our people 'your drums are evil, burn them all', and most of the people did. But the people used to dance for the animals every season, because it was important, it was paramount. So our people get rid of all their drum and they pick up the fiddle. And everybody thought it's Scottish jigging style, that's not traditional. But what the priests didn't know, it's that they were watching at people jigging, dancing and playing the fiddle to people actually dancing for the animals. It was the only way we could still dance for the animal and their spirits without the priests knowing. That blew my mind. Every nation held something, have hold on to one secret that also belongs to all nations in Quebec, and even across Canada.\">colonial mentality<\/a> in the face of savagery. A few pictures here and there, in a Quebec history textbook. Native Americans growing corn, the others, nomads who hunt and gather. Animal skins on their shoulders and shaman healers. Cone-shaped tents, others in the shape of semicircles and longhouses, in which we lived by the dozen. The imaginary just stands there, observing lifestyles significantly different from those civilized. Often the story does not reveal any more.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to take a look at the story, not as a distant disappointment, but rather as being part of it, as having taken part in its development. The story we wish to share with you, is no longer only white, it takes place inland, at sea and within men. The aim is try to look at who we are and to accept where we come from. This story has flaws and it also has incredible power, resilience and temerity. Its main purpose; a desire for change.<\/p>\n<p>We want to resolve collective amnesia. Tell. Share. Translate into reality. Withstand the test of time. Accompany the world\u2019s affairs. Establish a foothold. <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"We have 11 nations in Quebec, and even though each one of them has their own philosophy, we're still all related. Some parts of this text, I knew it was in the philosophy of the Cree, and elsewhere I was thinking it was related to Huron-Wendat, or Mohawks. It did a good job of blanketing everything lightly; there's a common thread. \">To recreate a<\/a> we to populate the present territories, these territories that made us.<\/p>\n<p>This we which we wish to shout out, this we in turmoil in which we carry all fragmented hopes. This we whom we are trying to tame.<\/p>\n<p>To experience diversity again that now resides within us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROLOGUE The past tells us a story. This story is white. It transpires submission. As they say, colonial mentality in the face of savagery. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":991,"parent":709,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"temp-side-by-side-separate.php","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/713\/revisions\/2402"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}