Atik^u

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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Kuessipan

This novel by Naomi Fontaine is presented as a series of prose poems which introduces the reader to the daily life on an Innu reserve and which tenderly displays, but without any concession, the character, customs, feelings, and passions of a young Innu who courageously negotiates the comings and goings between the reserve and the city, so common for the people of Uashat-Maliotenan.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu-aitun

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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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L’appel de l’Arctique

In this travelogue with a preface by Jean Malaurie, Jean-Marc Huguet, Doctor of Education, travels through the territories of the Great North, the lands of Ellesmere, Baffin, Greenland and Svalbard, regions that compel the traveller to cast his gaze far and wide. (Jean-Marc Huguet, Paris, Harmattan, 2010, 167 p.)

Subjects: Culture, Exploration

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L’esprit du Nord : propos sur l’autochtonie québécoise

Collection of essays on the themes of Aboriginal peoples and nordicity by a non-Aboriginal man, lover of the North. (Jean Désy, Montréal, XYZ, 2010, 225 p.)

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Nordicity

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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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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. 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 Docus

French-language documentaries about the Arctic.

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Documentaries, French

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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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