1. The Essipiunnuat, the Salmon War and cultural oblivion
The study of cultural oblivion
The Essipiunnuat: contexts and circumstances
2. The sources of war: colonialism and the emergence of collective agency
A hand strangling us: external determinants
Hope in our hands: faces of group agency
3. Capturing who we were: heroic postures in tragic circumstances
Self-portraits: narrating one’s performance
Inter-individual depictions: narrating others’ gestures
Images of the group: gazing at ourselves
Ways of relating: relational system remodelling
Self-concept alterations: mutations and metamorphosis
Fruits of uprising: the sweet and the sour
Internal reordination: the path to monocracy
5. The Essipiunnuat’s actuality in light of the past
Reminiscences and the fragility of oblivion
Contemporaneities: the mirror of memory
Figures of continuation: from planned annihilation to self-designs