Colonial renaming erased Innu place-names like Patshetshunau

Evidence

Soon there will be no great and beautiful wild rivers left in Quebec, the entire territory will be crisscrossed with a network of powerlines, which like spiderwebs will spoil the beauty of our mountains and valleys. … They called the great falls Patshetshunau—“steam rising.” The white people called it Churchill Falls, named after a British guy who had never even seen them. Strange how that all works. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 331

Categorization

• CANDY: The Innu called the falls ‘steam rising’; colonists named them after a Briton who never saw them — a tart, quotable line.
• XREF: connects to: Canadian government advertised Innu territory as free of human habitation — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 299; Old World colonial place-naming treated new sites as siblings, not successors — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 716; Tamil place names are being replaced to erase minority territorial claims (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Cartographic naming or omitting names legitimizes colonial claims to inhabited land #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1405
• Colonial maps erased native settlement to designate empty Lockean land #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1405
• Israel erased the Arab landscape by renaming Palestinian places with Old Testament Hebrew names #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 626
• Colonial maps erased native presence by designating inhabited lands empty #expands (0.80)
• Old World colonial place-naming treated new sites as siblings, not successors #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 716
• Tamil place names are being replaced to erase minority territorial claims #expands (0.75)
• Renaming a city erased Muslim history and became a shouted epithet during killings #exemplifies (0.75) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 228
• Colonial historiography reproduced administrative maps that erased mixed-ethnic encampments #expands (0.75)
• Forced removal severed the Potawatomi from their named nut trees and homelands #exemplifies (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 55
• Newfoundland approved mining on Innu land without Innu consent #responds-to (0.75) — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 366
• Name erasure of Muslim landmarks followed Serb precedent #responds-to (0.72) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 607