A documentary that follows Joséphine Bacon, an Innu writer who has devoted her life passing along ancestral knowledge so she may prevent the loss of a language, a culture, and its traditions.

There is no Innu word for "poetry", notes Josephine Bacon at the beginning of Kim O’Bomsawin’s enchanting, affectionate and transporting portrait of the septuagenarian writer, filmmaker, translator and, yes, poet. "I don’t think we needed one. We were poets simply by living in harmony with the water and the land."

“Sauvage,” says Joséphine Bacon, “means to be wholly free.”

When elders leave us, a link to the past vanishes along with them. Innu writer Joséphine Bacon exemplifies a generation that is bearing witness to a time that will soon have passed away. With charm and diplomacy, she leads a charge against the loss of a language, a culture, and its traditions. On the trail of Papakassik, the master of the caribou, Call Me Human proposes a foray into a people's multimillennial history, in company with a woman of great spirit who has devoted her life to passing on her knowledge and that of her ancestors. In her language, Innu means “human.”

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