Matimekush

Matimekush, an Innu village of seven hundred souls adjacent to Schefferville, a derelict Canadian mining town north of the 55th parallel and inaccessible by road, is poised to become the first Innu-African community.

The Innus, forced to settle by mining companies with the help of the Canadian government and the clergy, have been welcoming African immigrants to their ancestral lands for the past ten years. At the Kanatamat school, the heart of the community, almost all the teachers are from West Africa.

How do two communities who, at first glance, seem so far apart, attempt to build a new world in the frozen desert of Canada's Far North?