An Antane Kapesh

An Antane-Kapesh (1926–2004), also known by her French-language name Anne(-Marie) André, was an Innu writer and activist from Schefferville, Quebec. She was a chief at Schefferville (Matimekosh) from 1965–1967.

In 1976, she published the autobiographical book / ('I Am A Damned Savage Woman') in a bilingual French–Innu edition. This book, which deals with topics such as loss of hunting territory, the residential school system and police brutality, may have been the first French-language book published by a First Nations woman in Quebec. The publication of books such as this, containing Innu text, has also been cited as an important factor in the cultural revival of the language; an Innu-language press was soon founded and existed until 1993.

Kapesh followed this book with another, / ('What Have You Done With My Country?') in 1979, discusses colonization of Turtle Island from the perspective of a fictionalized child.