Cet article aborde la question des droits et des responsabilités territoriales chez les Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok à partir de leurs propres termes. J’explique notamment en quoi le concept nehirowisiw otiperitamowin, utilisé pour parler des droits, des pouvoirs et des responsabilités, fait aussi référence à des valeurs fondamentales comme l’autonomie et la réciprocité. En articulant ma réflexion à l’aide de la perspective issue du pluralisme juridique et des travaux de Roberts (1998), de Panikkar (1999) et de Jullien (2008), l’article montre en quoi cette perspective peut être une amorce intéressante à un exercice de dialogue entre les ordres juridiques autochtones et étatiques. Cet exercice soutenu par des exemples ethnographiques est une prémisse à la comparaison et à l’analyse des dynamiques d’enchevêtrement, de négociation et de résistance entre les ordres juridiques autochtones et étatiques.

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This paper highlights the relevance of analyzing entangled territorialities and Indigenous use of maps in order to better understand what Lévy describes in terms of “spatial capital”—the socio‐economic dynamics and power relationships maintained and negotiated between the stakeholders interacting within the Indigenous forestland. More specifically, it discusses the entanglement dynamics of land tenures coexisting today within Nitaskinan, the ancestral territory claimed by the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok. Within Nitaskinan, members of the First Nation negotiate the continuity of their practices, occupation, and use of ancestral hunting territories with state institutions, logging companies, and non‐Indigenous members of civil society who have interests in the land resources. All these stakeholders implement different territorial regimes that interact and sometimes conflict. Based on concrete ethnographic examples, the analysis presented here focuses on the compromises, frictions, resistance, and creativity that are part of territorial coexistence between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people.

The Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Nation has for several years been developing a code of practice (orocowewin notcimik itatcihowin) to regulate hunting, fishing and plant harvesting activities in Nitaskinan, its ancestral territory. The Atikamekw Nehirowisiw code of practice is a collective project that sets out to put its territorial regulations in writing. The project's objective is threefold: to ensure the transmission of territorial knowledge and of rules relating to forest activities; to adapt these rules, passed on by ancestors, to the contemporary context; and to have them recognised by non-natives and the governments of other nations, including the governments of Canada and Quebec. This article presents some of the issues related to the process of writing and coding orocowewin notcimik itatcihowin, the Atikamekw Nehirowisiw code of practice; in particular, the importance of the oral tradition as a means of transmitting knowledge is emphasised. In our language, we say "atisokana ki atisokan"we are infused and transformed by the narratives transmitted orally. This mode of transmission is politically, philosophically and emotionally significant. It is a unique way for us to let the heart speak, through direct contact, without interference.

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