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La forêt vive : récits fondateurs du peuple innu (BAnQ)

This book is made up of four chapters each presenting a legend relating to an aspect of Innu mythology. Each caption is followed by an explanatory text in which the author describes variations that can be found in other storytellers or among other indigenous groups.

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La nordicité du Québec : entretiens avec Louis-Edmond Hamelin

Interviews with the father of nordicity on the major themes that shaped his singular intellectual approach: Northern Quebec, Indigenous Peoples, winter and the creation of words to describe the cold world. (Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Jean Désy, Daniel Chartier, Robert Fréchette, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2014, 141 p.)

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Linguistic, Winter, Northern Quebec, Nordicity

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Labrador. ᓚᐸᑐᐊ.

Trilingual album (French, Inuktitut, English) illustrated with photographs by Bob Mesher, Inuit of Nunavik. (Bob Mesher and Danielle Schaub, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, coll. «Imagoborealis», 2014, 90 p.)

Subjects: Inuit, Labrador, Photographs

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Le bestiaire innu : les quadrupèdes (BAnQ)

This encyclopedic-type book brings together Innu knowledge concerning a selection of twenty quadrupeds, ranging from black bears and caribou to various species of mice, including beavers, wolves, hares, dogs and many others. It is based on ethnographic data, historians, missionaries, naturalists, biologists and even accounts from explorers who have traveled through northern Quebec.

Subjects: Animals, Hunting and fishing, Innu, Innu-aitun

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Le droit au froid : le combat d’une femme pour protéger sa culture, l’Arctique et notre planète

Climate change disrupts and threatens the Inuit way of life, their culture and their economic autonomy. Biographical story of an environmental activist (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) who wants to make climate change a Human Rights issue. French version of “The right to be cold : One woman’s story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet”. (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Montréal, Écosociété, 2019, 356 p.)

Subjects: Climate change, Indigenous affairs, Indigenous authors, Inuit, Law

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Le peuple rieur : hommage à mes amis innus

History of the Innu from their origins to the present day, written by an anthropologist, Serge Bouchard, who has been around this people for 50 years. (Serge Bouchard & Marie-Christine Lévesque, Montréal, Lux éditeur, 2017, 320 p.)

Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Innu

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Les autochtones et le Québec : des premiers contacts au Plan Nord (BAnQ)

Collective and interdisciplinary work which brings together more than twenty authors, including indigenous actors. It offers a series of eighteen essays that plunge into the heart of the historical and contemporary realities and issues of the eleven indigenous peoples of Quebec.

Subjects: geopolitics, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Indigenous languages

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Les derniers peuples des glaces

Magnificent illustrated book portraying the different peoples of the Far North (Dolganes, Nénets, Tchouktches, Yakoutes, Sâmes, Koriaks and Inuits) through their traditional mores and customs. (Francis Latreille et Erik Orsenna, Paris, Gallimard, 2018, 231 p.)

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Customs, Indigenous communities, Photographs

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Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)

Book examining, from a territorial perspective, questions such as those of the universe of Innu society, its values and its legal order at the time of the arrival of Europeans and its subsequent transformation. The work is intended to be a contribution to the application of the principles of Innu and Nitassinan law.

Subjects: Innu territory, Land occupancy, Law

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Les Inuit et les Cris du Nord du Québec Territoire, gouvernance, société et culture (BAnQ)

This book consists of understanding how the Cree and Inuit populations of northern Quebec are building the foundations of a new institutional and social framework in the face of recent social changes while maintaining their traditions. Cree society and Inuit society are approached through the prism of three axes: territory-law-governance, society-environment-health and language-culture-heritage.

Subjects: geopolitics, Innu, Inuit, Land occupancy, Self-government, Politics

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Les récits de notre terre : Les Innus (BAnQ)

This book offers corpus of oral accounts collected from representatives of the Innu people and anthropologists. Some are unpublished. The stories are divided into ten sections: “The origins”, “Stories of the Receiver”, “Tshakapesh”, “Atshen”, “Other heroes”, “Unusual couples”, “The masters of animals”, “Animals”, “In contact with other nations” and “Various stories”.

Subjects: Innu, Innu-aitun, Oral narratives

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Les récits de notre terre : Les Naskapis (BAnQ)

This book is a collection of ancestral stories allows us to better understand the soul of the Naskapi people. It will certainly be able to feed the pen of researchers in native studies and make these stories more accessible to the general public as well as to the main stakeholders, the members of the Naskapi nation.

Subjects: Land occupancy, Naskapis, Oral narratives

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Lettre à un Inuit de 2022 : Un regard angoissé sur le destin d’un peuple

A letter from a Frenchman who has made the Arctic his home for 60 years to convince the Inuit, the Greenlanders and the 26 nationalities of northern Siberia to withstand the temptations of the current system and to establish an ecological humanism in order to live in a healthy, unpolluted environment. (Jean Malaurie, Paris, Fayard, 2015, 157 p.)

Subjects: Ecology, Greenland, Inuit

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Narrative of a voyage to Hudson’s Bay in His Majesty’s ship Rosamond containing some account of the north-eastern coast of America and of the tribes inhabiting that remote region

An account of British Lieutenant Edward Chappell’s journey to Hudson Bay, published in 1817 and containing maps and illustrations. (Edward Chappell, London, J. Mawman, 1817, 279 p.)

Subjects: British expeditions, Exploration, History, Hudson Bay

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Nitinikiau innusi : I keep the land alive

A collection of Innu environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue’s diary entries. (Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2019, 244 p.)

Subjects: Environment, Indigenous authors, Innu

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Objectif Nord : le Québec au-delà du 49e

Illustrated bilingual book (French and English) with pictures showing the beauty and vastness of northern Quebec and texts expressing the love and passion of their authors for this territory. (Serge Bouchard & Jean Désy, Québec, Éditions Sylvain Harvey, 2013, 199 p.)

Subjects: Côte-Nord, Northern Quebec, Nordicity, Photographs

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Polar circus : les explorations polaires à la française

Non-fiction book on the history of the exploration of the circumpolar north by France, between the 17th and 20th centuries. (Stéphane Dugast, Paris, Éditions du Trésor, 2019, 233 p.)

Subjects: Circumpolar North, Exploration, French expeditions, History

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Qummut qukiria!: art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi : mobilizing the circumpolar north

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the recovery of traditional practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a traditional woman’s headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond. Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social well-being, and cultural identity (Igloliorte, H. L., Lundström, J.-E., & Hudson, A. (2022). Qummut qukiria!: Art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the circumpolar north. Goose Lane Editions)

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Circumpolar North, Cultural identity, Indigenous art, Indigenous artists, Indigenous languages, Inuit

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The Arctic : Reflecting the landscape, wildlife, and people of the Far North

Sven-Olof Lindblad

Illustrated book of the Arctic bringing together never-before-seen photographs of land and sea, rich biodiversity and indigenous peoples of the area, and explores the challenges everyone faces in the face of rapid environmental changes due to the global warming. (Sven-Olof Lindblad, New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 2016, 220 p.)

Subjects: Animals, Environmental changes, Indigenous communities, Photographs

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The Arctic : what everyone needs to know

Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall

Non-fiction book seeking to answer the main questions of importance on the circumpolar North in relation with its history and the glacial environment of this region, the indigenous peoples who live there, the climate change effects, the natural resources development and the political issues involved. (Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019)

Subjects: Circumpolar North, Climate change, Environment, geopolitics, Indigenous peoples

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