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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 Some are unpublished.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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Life Among the Qallunaat

Author Mini Aodla Freeman’s account of living in both her traditional world and the settlers’ world. (Mini Aodla Freeman, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 305 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Inuit

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Ma peau aime le Nord

First collection of poetry by the young Innu of Ekuanitshit (Mingan) Manon Nolin, Ma peau aime le Nord reveals the boundless attachment that the Innu poet has for her culture, for the traditions of her ancestors, for her territory. Her writing takes an intimate look at the fragility of a disappearing Innu culture, whose strength we can still feel in the thousand-year-old teachings of nature.

Subjects: Côte-Nord, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Indigenous literature, Innu

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Manikanetish : Petite Marguerite

This novel by Naomie Fontaine, Innu from Uashat, depicts the universe of a French teacher posted on an Indian reserve on the North Shore, that of her students who seek to take charge of themselves. Native, she will do everything to save them from despair, even go into the theater with them. The author was a finalist for the 2019 Radio-Canada National Book Combat, a finalist for the 2018 Geneva Book Fair Audience Award and many others.

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Manuel d’initiation à la langue innue (BAnQ)

Innu language initiation manual including an Innu-French lexicon as well as educational exercises.

Subjects: Indigenous languages, Innu dialects, Innu language

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Map of the Kativik region (BAnQ)

Geographic map (scale 1: 1,000,000) of the Kativik region illustrating, among other things, the ancient settlements with Inuit, Cree and Naskapi toponyms.

Subjects: Maps

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Mise bas du caribou (Géoindex)

This layer shows the location of caribou calving grounds north of the 52nd parallel.

Subjects: Calving grounds, Caribou, Geospatial data, Northern Quebec

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Modèles numériques d’altitude des villages nordiques à l’échelle 1/2 000 (Géoindex)

Includes digital elevation models covering Inuit villages located north of the 55th parallel. The documents in this series are digital elevation matrices accurate to within one metre.

Subjects: Digital elevation model, Geospatial data, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Villages

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Nametau Innu Glossary

Glossary of the Innu language in English and French. Produced by Musée régional de la Côte-Nord.

Subjects: Innu, Innu dictionary, Innu language, Innu-aimun, Labrador, Northern Quebec

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Native American Ethnobotany Database: Find Drug, Dyes, Fibre, Food by Indigenous group (University of Michigan)

A database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples from North America, Derived from Plants.

Subjects: Ethnobotany, Indigenous peoples, Traditional Diet, Traditional medicine

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Native American women: a biographical dictionary

Contains biographical entries on over 250 Indigenous women born between 1499 and 1965.

Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous women

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NFB / Geography and Geology – Artic Region (National Film Board of Canada) (National Film Board of Canada)

Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Documentaries, Films, Indigenous peoples, Labrador, Northern Quebec, Nunavut, NFB, Northwest Territories, Videos, Yukon

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NFB / Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) (National Film Board of Canada)

Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Documentaries, Films, Indigenous peoples, Labrador, Northern Quebec, Nunavut, NFB, Northwest Territories, Videos, Yukon

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NFB / Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) (National Film Board of Canada)

Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.

Subjects: Canadian arctic, Documentaries, Films, Indigenous peoples, Labrador, Northern Quebec, Nunavut, NFB, Northwest Territories, Videos, Yukon

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Nipakanatik

Minwashin

Virtual archive collection that traces the history of the Anishnabe Nation.

Subjects: Algonquins, Artifacts, Cartography, Photographs

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Nipimanitu : l’esprit de l’eau

This philosophical poetry collection by sociologist Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Innu of the Essipit community, proposes a change of course in our relationship with the environment and nature, a reorientation for the future, otherwise we would head straight into a reef. Rather, the author lets nature speak for itself and recalls the urgency to act and get back to basics.

Subjects: Cosmogonic narratives, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu-aitun, Poetry

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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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North American Indian thought and culture

Biographies, stories, oral histories, speeches, photographs, drawings and audio files related to Indigenous history and culture in North America. Provides access to documents by people, places, years, type of environments, etc.

Subjects: Culture, History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Primary Sources

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North Circumpolar Map (Gouvernement du Canada)

Polar projection map produced in 2016 indicating settlements, boundaries, transportation networks, glaciers, and national parks.

Subjects: Circumpolar North, Maps, Polar projection

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