Down the road Mamuapuat
While relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations are relatively well documented at the institutional and political levels, particularly in terms of governance, nation-to-nation relations, and the negotiation of territorial agreements, it is clear that the day-to-day modalities of these relations are still largely unknown or undervalued. The present article focuses on the cultural coexistence of the Innu community of Nutashkuan and the village of Natashquan, both of which are located on the North Shore. Stemming from a collaborative and intercultural approach, this article aims to better understand not only the factors that bring these communities closer together but also the ones that divide them. It focuses on the way people live together in everyday-life territories and on inland Nitassinan, the ancestral territory of the Innu, which has been shared for more than 165 years with the Macacain, the descendants of the Acadians. This article ends with a reflection on the local experience of individuals and so-called peripheral communities by bringing forward their coexistence.