Response by Henitiuk and Mahieu to “Representing experiential knowledge”

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Notes on contributors

Valerie Henitiuk is vice-president academic & provost at Concordia University of Edmonton, and a former editor of Translation Studies.

Marc-Antoine Mahieu is professor of Inuktitut at INALCO, Sorbonne Paris Cité, and consultant for Kativik Ilisarniliriniq in Nunavik.

Bringing together complementary expertise in translation studies and linguistics, respectively, they have co-authored a number of articles and book chapters related to Inuit literature and culture, and have several forthcoming books offering new translations of a foundational work of Canadian Indigenous literature.

Notes

1 The twentieth-century history of Inuit in Canada is inflected with traumatic episodes such as forced settlement, the imposition of Christianity, the violent introduction of a market economy, residential schools, devastating epidemics, the slaughter of sled dogs, and the High Arctic Relocations.