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Following a decade-long research project, this devastating book examines colonial state imperatives to oppress indigenous peoples and history from mainstream national narratives. Through the study of his community, the Essipiunnuat or, ‘People of the Brook Shells River’, the author hopes to combat the erasure of First Nations people from colonial history-books by shedding a light on historical and current systematic and territorial oppression. From land grabs, to genocide and irreversible ecological warfare, the book demonstrates the impact of psychological colonialism on agency and resistance, the value of elders and community story-telling in empowerment and self-actualisation, and the role of the state and local elites in creating and warping our perception and understanding of history. A critical text for those with an interest in indigenous people, their history and human rights, Thou Shalt Forget also serves as an important tool for remembrance and a starting point for resistance and change.

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On almost every page of 'Thou Shalt Forget' Pierrot Ross Tremblay reveals himself as someone deeply engaged (and enraged) with what is happening to indigenous peoples today. Tremblay joins several important scholars such as Taiaiake Alfred, Val Napoleon and the late Vine Deloria on shining a light on the paradoxes of indigenous sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonialism. He is one of the few scholars defending an indigenous perspective in Quebec and bringing it into wider public debate. -Colin Samson (University of Essex) In this remarkable book, Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, researching on his own First Nations community, Essipit close to the St Lawrence in Quebec, examines the impact of the pressure on local leaders to conform, to work with the policies of the Canadian national government toward First Nations people, penning them up in small overcrowded reserves and creating a pretence of economic advance through tourism and fisheries. Through such a strategy these local leaders gain benefits for themselves, and also, they would argue, for the community. -Paul Thompson, oral historian & author of The Voice of the Past -- Paul Thompson

On almost every page of 'Thou Shalt Forget' Pierrot Ross Tremblay reveals himself as someone deeply engaged (and enraged) with what is happening to indigenous peoples today. Tremblay joins several important scholars such as Taiaiake Alfred, Val Napoleon and the late Vine Deloria on shining a light on the paradoxes of indigenous sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonialism. He is one of the few scholars defending an indigenous perspective in Quebec and bringing it into wider public debate. In this remarkable book, Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, researching on his own First Nations community, Essipit close to the St Lawrence in Quebec, examines the impact of the pressure on local leaders to conform, to work with the policies of the Canadian national government toward First Nations people, penning them up in small overcrowded reserves and creating a pretence of economic advance through tourism and fisheries. Through such a strategy these local leaders gain benefits for themselves, and also, they would argue, for the community. Paul Thompson, oral historian & author of The Voice of the Past -- Paul Thompson

On almost every page of 'Thou Shalt Forget' Pierrot Ross Tremblay reveals himself as someone deeply engaged (and enraged) with what is happening to indigenous peoples today. Tremblay joins several important scholars such as Taiaiake Alfred, Val Napoleon and the late Vine Deloria on shining a light on the paradoxes of indigenous sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonialism. He is one of the few scholars defending an indigenous perspective in Quebec and bringing it into wider public debate. -Professor Colin Samson (University of Essex)

"""On almost every page of 'Thou Shalt Forget' Pierrot Ross Tremblay reveals himself as someone deeply engaged (and enraged) with what is happening to indigenous peoples today. Tremblay joins several important scholars such as Taiaiake Alfred, Val Napoleon and the late Vine Deloria on shining a light on the paradoxes of indigenous sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonialism. He is one of the few scholars defending an indigenous perspective in Quebec and bringing it into wider public debate.""  -Professor Colin Samson (University of Essex) ""Sheds new light on Quebec's colonial past and the emergency of Euro-Quebec nationalist myth.""  -Anthropology and Societies"

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Pierrot Ross-Tremblay is a professor at the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

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