An Antane Kapesh's two books, which are translated here for the first time in English, alongside the revised Innu texts, are a testimony of the changes she witnessed during her lifetime due to land dispossession, assimilation, residential schools, intergenerational trauma, and environmental exploitation.

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.