Download or read book The People of Sheshatshit written by José Mailhot and published by St. John's, Nfld. : ISER Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People of Sheshatshit and their fellow lnnu attracted world-wide attention with a campaign against low-level flying exercises conducted over their land by NATO air forces. Thanks to Jose Mailhot's thirty-year-long acquaintance with this Labrador community. The book gives us far more than the conventional media image of Native Canadian society. This study of Innu social organization is based on the aboriginal point of view rather than the anthropologist's own theories. Readers will learn that contact between Europeans and the people of Sheshatshit created a particular form of social hierarchy not seen in other Innu communities and that in the system of proper names, Innu given names and nicknames are more important than family names, which are European.