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First Peoples of the North

This collection is developed for Native communities​ and both for students and researchers in Native Studies. It brings together a selection of varied and high-quality resources dedicated, in whole or in part, to First Peoples of the North, including the Northern First Nations and Inuit.

Most of the information resources listed are free of charge and freely available. Restricted access resources are only accessible to mentionned universities’ members, but can however be consulted on site.

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Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)

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)

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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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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    • Health Sciences
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
Les Inuits du Nunavik : territoire, histoire et société

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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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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Les récits de notre terre : Les Innus (BAnQ)

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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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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Les récits de notre terre : Les Naskapis (BAnQ)

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

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

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.

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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Manikanetish : Petite Marguerite

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)

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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    • Free - Open Access
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    • Humanities and Social Sciences
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Map of the Kativik region (BAnQ)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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.

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    • Engineering and Technology
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
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NFB / Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) (National Film Board of Canada)

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.

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    • Engineering and Technology
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
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NFB / Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) (National Film Board of Canada)

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.

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    • Engineering and Technology
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
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Nipimanitu : l’esprit de l’eau

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.

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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Natural Sciences
Nitinikiau innusi : I keep the land alive

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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