I Dreamed the Animals: Kaneuketat: the Life of an Innu Hunter

This is Kaniuekutat's book. In it he is telling his story, primarily addressed to his descendants, about his own life, but even more so about Innu culture in the northern parts of Labrador. The pages of this book are filled with the voice of Kaniuekutat giving his version of what it is like to be an Innu hunter, and a personal account of the problems and distress that have followed from sedentarization and village life. Kaniuekutat invites us to see Innu society and culture from the inside, the way he lives it and reflects upon it. He was greatly concerned about the possibility that the young Innu may loose their traditional culture and the skills necessary to make a living as hunters in nutshimit, in the country, and wanted to convey a message: the Innu must take care of their language, their culture and their traditions.

Georg Henriksen has carried out fieldwork among the Innu since 1966 and also among the Turkana (Kenya) and Sami (Finland). Until his recent death he was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.