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Inuit Nunangat (Government of Canada) (Gouvernement du Canada)

Map of 53 Inuit communities in Northern Canada.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Maps, Northern Canada

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Inuit print – Growth: I (BAnQ)

Print by Ludmila Armate, painter of Polish origin working in Quebec, published in a collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. In the late 1990s, at the instigation of his coming to Kinngait Studios, the Inuit of Cape Dorset were introduced to large-format drawings with oil sticks for the first time.

Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit

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Inuit Unikkaangit / ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

Host and Archivist Mary Powder reunites Inuit with stories from CBC North’s vast Inuktitut language archives by replaying them for the descendants of the original storytellers, some of whom are hearing them for the very first time. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, 2020. )

Subjects: Inuit, Oral narratives

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Inuit uqausillaringit : ulirnaisigutiit

Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut language, Syllabic writing, Nunavut

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Inuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect

A dictionary of the Tununiq dialect of Inuktitut (Baffin Island). Text in syllabic fonts only.

Subjects: Baffin Island, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Syllabic writing

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Inuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary

Glossary of 5 Inuktitut dialects spoken in Nunavut: Inuinnaqtun, Nattilinmiut, Saallirmiut, South Qikiqtaaluk, and North Qikiqtaaluk.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut language, Nunavut

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IsumaTV

Web platform for videos filmed by Indigenous directors depicting the contemporary realities of First Nations peoples.

Subjects: Documentaries, Films, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Videos

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Jardin de givre collection

The literary works in this collection, published by the International Laboratory for Research on the Imaginary of the North, Winter and the Arctic, aim to document, study and interpret the northern Quebecois and circumpolar imagination from a multicultural perspective, comparative and multidisciplinary. They particularly value comparisons between the cultures of Quebec, Scandinavia, Finland and the Inuit world.

Subjects: Inuit

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Je te veux vivant

This collection of poetry by Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau, a Cree Métis born in Rapides-des-Cèdres, inspires hope and life, despite the suffering of mourning and loneliness. The author takes us on two trajectories of pain which, upon leaving, defeat death.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Poetry

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Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau : autobiographie (1914-1993) = Inunnik isumainnaqiqujigiallapunga : Inuusirminik allagaliavininga (1914-mit 1993-mut)

Taamusi Qumaq (1914-1993), considered one of the great thinkers of the Inuit of Nunavik, devoted his life to recording the lives of his people and their language, while recording the great changes of the 20th century. His autobiography, translated into French and available for the first time in its original language, is a document of great importance that opens up a compelling cultural universe. (Taamusi Qumaq Allatangit, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2020, 309 p.)

Subjects: Cultural identity, History, Inuit, Nunavik

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Knowledge Resources & Publications (National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health)

Reports, articles, chapters, bulletins, and other documents dealing with the health and well-being of Canada’s First Nations. Freely available resource.

Subjects: Family health, Health policy, Indigenous peoples, Social determinants of health, Mental health

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Kukum

This novel by Innu author and journalist Michel Jean, from the Mashteuiatsh community, tells the story of the brutal sedentarization of the Innu through the unique story of his great-grandmother. This work, which won the France-Quebec Literary Prize, immerses the reader in the life of Almanda Siméon, a white woman who will choose a nomadic life by marrying an Innu from Mashteuiatsh.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu territory, Sedentarization

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Kuujjuaq: Memories and musings

Autobiography of Kuujjuaq elder, Dorothy Mesher. (Dorothy Mesher, Duncan BC, Unica Publishing Company, 1995, 123 p.)

Subjects: Cultural identity, Indigenous authors, Inuit

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La saga des Béothuks

Historical, mythological, ethnographic, this novel is a masterful work by Bernard Assiniwi, of Cree origin, which won him the France-Quebec Jean-Hamelin Prize in 1997. It makes a fascinating contribution to the rediscovery of indigenous societies, at the same time. time it sheds light on a particularly dramatic episode in the white conquest of America.

Subjects: Colonization, Ethnology, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Mythology

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Labrador Inuttut Dictionary

Inuttut–English and English–Inuttut dictionary produced by the Virtual Museum of Labrador. Inuttut is a dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Labrador.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuttut, Inuttut dictionary, Labrador

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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 Nord : habitants et mutations

Historical atlas with rich textual content about the inhabitants of the North (people of the North Shore, Innu, Cree, Naskapi, and Inuit), exploration of the territory, and its maps, as well as industrialization of the region.

Subjects: Atlas, Indigenous peoples, Maps, Migration, Northern Quebec

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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 Inuits du Nunavik : territoire, histoire et société

The history of the Inuit of Nunavik, since prehistoric times, is outlined in this publication. The author also discusses issues concerning contemporary Inuit society, particularly in the areas of education, health, social services, culture, economy, and the environment, among other topics. (Marcel Rousseau, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, 608 p.)

Subjects: History, Inuit, Nunavik, Prehistory, Social sciences

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