File F2 - Joséphine Bacon

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AC-S1-SS1-F2

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Joséphine Bacon

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  • 2013 (Creation)

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1 born digital moving image file in MP4 format (Moving Pictures Expert Group 4)
1 born digital textual transcript in PDF (Portable Document Format)

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(2010-)

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Research and Curation was established in 2010, when it was originally called Research, Content and Scholarship. In 2011, when Collections moved to the Design + New Media department (later called Design + New Media & Collections), the Research, Content and Scholarship department name was then changed to Research and Curation.

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This file consists of an oral history interview with Joséphine Bacon, and associated documents. The interview was conducted by Matthew McRae and Trisha Logan on April 16, 2013.

Ms. Bacon speaks about:
• Her growing up as an Innu person in the inland area of the Betsiamites River in Quebec and her move to Montréal.
• Her work as a poet, her books and her teaching the Innu language to students.
• Activism and the rights of Indigenous peoples, and how identity, language and children are the most important of those rights.
• Innu rights and the challenges, victories and resistance relating to them.

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Access to this material is restricted to users of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Reference Centre. Please contact the Archivist at archivist [at] humanrights.ca to make an appointment to access this material.

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  • French

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