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Jean-Luc Kanapé
Jean-Luc Kanapé is an Innu people, Innu activist and actor from Canada, most prominent as a caribou conservationist. A researcher for the Pessamit Innu Band council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pipmuacan Reservoir, Pipmuacan region near Pessamit and Baie-Comeau. In 2021, he received an emerging leadership award from the First Nations Guardians Gathering, an organization of indigenous peoples in Canada, indigenous environmentalists and conservationists. He had his first acting role in the 2021 film ''Nouveau Québec (film), Nouveau Québec'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Film, Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. In 2024, he appeared in François Péloquin's film ''The Thawing of Ice (La fonte des glaces)''. In fall 2024 he launched ''Sous les barrages (Under the Dams): Tshishe Manikuan'', a seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innu People
The Innu/Ilnu ('man, person'), formerly called Montagnais (French for ' mountain people'; ), are the Indigenous Canadians who inhabit northeastern Labrador in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador and some portions of Quebec. They refer to their traditional homeland as '' Nitassinan'' ('Our Land', ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ) or ''Innu-assi'' ('Innu Land'). The ancestors of the modern First Nations were known to have lived on these lands as hunter-gatherers for many thousands of years. To support their seasonal hunting migrations, they created portable tents made of animal skins. Their subsistence activities were historically centred on hunting and trapping caribou, moose, deer, and small game. Their language, which changed over time from Old Montagnais to Innu-aimun (popularly known since the French colonial era as Montagnais), is spoken throughout Nitassinan, with certain dialect differences. It is part of the Cree–Montagnais– Naskapi dialect continuum, and is unrelate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
