This article analyzes the ways in which Innu writer Naomi Fontaine transmits a discourse on contemporary colonialism in Quebec rooted in personal experience in Shuni. Ce que tu dois savoir, Julie (2019). Under the pretext of writing a long letter to a Québécois friend, Fontaine adopts a political and didactic voice to produce a study of ongoing colonialism. To understand the different aspects of the discourse in this epistolary essay, this article examines the ways in which Fontaine enacts kinship to the Innu intellectual and literary tradition, takes a critical look at whiteness and the white gaze and teaches her readers a practice of responsible listening.