An Antane Kapesh Author

An Antane Kapesh (1926-2004) was an Innu writer and activist from Schefferville, Quebec. She was a chief at Schefferville (Matimekosh) from 1965-1967. Her 1976 autobiographical book Je suis une maudite sauvagesse was published in both French and Innu and dealt with topics such as loss of hunting territory, the residential school system and police brutality. Sarah Henzi is a settler scholar and assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on graphic novels, science fiction, speculative fiction, erotica, and new media, in English and in French.