Abstract
In January 1982, a group from Montreal’s le Théâtre de la Marmaille consisting of François Camirand, Emmanuel Charpentier, France Mercille, Daniel Meilleur, and myself, left for our first expedition into the far North, land of the Nouvel-Québécois. André Moreau from the Kativik Board of Education accompanied us. This vast northern space, which as children we always called the land of the Eskimos and which children today still believe to be the land of Santa Claus, is inhabited by a race that prefers to be called “Inuit” (meaning “man” in the broadest sense of the term). The Inuit inhabit that part of Quebec which is above the tree-line, from Kuujjurapik (Poste-au-Baleine) to Kuujjuak (Fort Chimo). Indeed, there are no trees, only the vast stretch of white where the native people live spread out in 14 villages in a region that we know as Le Nouveau Québec. It was Michel O. Noël, ethnologist and coordinator of Indian and Inuit Affairs at the Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, who first had the idea of touring a children’s play into Nouveau Québec and he submitted his project to us.
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