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Borderline : la vie sur le cercle arctique

Illustrated book on the daily life of residents from eight different countries around the circumpolar Arctic, and captured by London-based photographer Cristian Barnett. French translation of the book “Life on the Line: People of the Arctic Circle”. (Cristian Barnett (photograph) & Huw Lewis-Jones, Paris, Paulsen, 2014, 207 p.)

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Inuit, Photographs

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Carcajou à l’aurore du monde : fragments écrits d’une encyclopédie orale innue (BAnQ)

This book immerses us in the boreal universe of Carcajou, this strange and fabulous being who populates the legends of northern Quebec and Labrador. In the 1970s, Savard recorded narrative sequences of this character after interviewing storytellers from the Ungava Valley and Sheshatshiu in Labrador.

Subjects: Atanukans, Innu, Innu-aitun, Mythology, Oral narratives

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Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory (BAnQ)

Originally published in 1894 as a part of the eleventh annual report of the Smithsonian Institution, this reissue of Lucien M. Turner’s classic book chronicles his observations of Indigenous culture on his journey along the Quebec-Labrador coast and during his stay in Fort-Chimo towards the end of the 19th century.

Subjects: Culture, Exploration, Innu, Innu-aitun, Inuit

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I am Inuit: Portraits of places and people of the Arctic

Documentary work by iñupiaq Brian Adams, combining photojournalism with the intimate stories of twenty-one Inuit communities in Alaska. (Brian Adams (photographe) & Julie Decker, Salenstein (Switzerland), Benteli, 2018, 205 p.)

Subjects: Alaska, Customs, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Inuit, Photographs

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Indigenous writes : A guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit issues in Canada

A collection of committed essays by Metis activist, teacher and intellectual Chelsea Vowel on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada, aimed at breaking down the misconceptions still entrenched in the consciousness of non-Indigenous people, and thus offering the reader a straightforward conversation about various difficult First Nations related issues. (Chelsea Vowel, Winnipeg, HighWater Press, 2016, 290 p.)

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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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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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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 right to be cold : One woman’s story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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. Also available in French under the title “Le droit au froid : le combat d’une femme pour protéger sa culture, l’Arctique et notre planète” (2019). (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Toronto, Allen Lane, 2015, 356 p.)

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

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Tshakapesh: Montagnais-Naskapi stories

Madeleine Lefebvre

Tale of Tshakapesh presented in seven variations by different indigenous storytellers. It is an oral poetry colligation primarily focused on Algonquin spirituality and mythology, which introduces us to the time when humans and animals really shared everything, including the mysterious dream world.

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