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The new Northwest Passage : A voyage to the front line of climate change

Cameron Dueck

Exploration story by Canadian journalist Cameron Dueck during his expedition through the Northwest Passage in 2009, for which the crossing is now possible in summer due to climate change. (Cameron Dueck, Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications, 2012, 256 p.)

Subjects: Climate change, Exploration, Inuit, Northwest Passage

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The Polar Explorer (PBS)

Documentary film on the exploration of the Arctic aboard the icebreaker Admunsen which, during the three weeks crossing the Northwest Passage, highlights the effects of climate change on this area. (Mark Terry, PBS, 2012, 60 min.)

Subjects: Climate change, Exploration, Films, Northwest Passage

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The polar regions : an environmental history

Adrian Howkins

A book that looks at the history of the exploration, economic development, geopolitical challenges, and myths about the Arctic and the Antarctic, from an environmental standpoint. (Adrian Howkins, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016, 251 p.)

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Economy, Environment, Exploration, History, Mythology

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The politics of arctic sovereignty: oil, ice, and Inuit governance

Jessica M. Shadian

This book analyses and provides an account of the political history of Arctic sovereignty and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, from early explorations and colonization to present day issues. (Jessica M. Shadian, New York, Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group, 2014, 252 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, geopolitics, 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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The settler colonial present

Lorenzo Veracini

This book discusses settler colonialism as a present issue that has continuing effect on Indigenous peoples. (Lorenzo Veracini, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, 160 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous studies

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Toolbox of research principles in an aboriginal context (Commission de la santé et des services sociaux des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador)

A selection of about forty protocols and initiatives from various research groups and Indigenous organizations.

Subjects: Research ethics

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Toolbox of research principles in an aboriginal context (Commission de la santé et des services sociaux des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador)

A selection of about forty protocols and initiatives from various research groups and Indigenous organizations.

Subjects: Labrador, Research ethics, Research protocol, Quebec, Research with Indigenous peoples

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Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America

Dr. Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Dr. Murray M. Humphries

Describes and references the published literature on traditional animal foods known and used by Indigenous Peoples of northern North America; organized by animal, culture, and nutrients.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Nutrition

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Treaties with American Indians : an encyclopedia of rights, conflicts, and sovereignty

Donald Lee Fixico

Présentation des traités réalisés avec plus de 500 peuples ou groupes autochtones concernant le partage des terres, l’autonomie gouvernementale, la protection culturelle et l’aide financière.

Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Land sharing, Self-government, Treaties

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Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research ) (Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada, Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada, Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada)

A joint policy of Canada’s three federal research agencies stemming from public consultations that sets out internationally recognized ethics standards. See Chapter 9, in particular, entitled “Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples of Canada” (p.121-127).

Subjects: CIHR, NSERC, Research ethics, SSHRC

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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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Uashtessiu : lumière d’automne

Jean Désy, Rita Mestokosho

In this book, two nomads, poets, healers, one Innu, the other from Quebec, share a love for the same territory: the North Shore and, beyond, the North. Rita Mestokosho is the first Innu poet to have published a collection in Quebec, while Jean Désy is a traveling poet who sails between the South and the North and the worlds of autochthony. Two sensibilities intersect in the space of this poetic exchange which will have lasted four seasons.

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

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Uiesh : Quelque part

Joséphine Bacon

This bilingual French-Innu aimum collection of poetry chronicles the life of a city-dweller whose soul and heart have remained in a lost land. Being a tribute to the territory of her ancestors, this book won Joséphine Bacon the Prix des libraires 2019.

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

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Ulirnaisigutiit : an Inuktitut-English dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador and Eastern Arctic dialects (with an English-Inuktitut index)

Lucien Schneider

An English–Inuktitut dictionary of dialects spoken Northern Quebec, Labrador, and the Eastern Arctic.

Subjects: Eastern Arctic, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Labrador, Northern Quebec

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Umiujaq. ᐅᒥᐅᔭᖅ. Regards inuits sur le paysage. ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᓯᓚᒥ ᑕᑯᒡᓇᓂᒡᓇ. Inuit Views on the Landscape

Fabienne Joliet

Trilingual album (French, Inuktitut, English) of amateur photographs taken in the region of Imiujaq (Nunavik) and addressing the idea of landscape among the Inuit.
(Fabienne Joliet, Montréal, Imaginaire|Nord, coll. «Isberg», 2012, 150 p.)

Subjects: Inuit, Landscapes, Nunavik, Photographs

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Une histoire du monde arctique : le dernier territoire imaginaire

Robert McGhee

History of the Arctic, from the postglacial era to the present day, and from Siberia to Baffin Land, where scientific approaches to archeology and anthropology are used. French version of “The last imaginary place: A human history of the Arctic world”. (Robert McGhee, Saint-Laurent, Fides, 2006, 300 p.)

Subjects: Anthropology, Archeology, Circumpolar Arctic, History

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Unfreezing the Arctic: science, colonialism, and the transformation of Inuit lands

Andrew Stuhl

This book analyses the impacts of colonialism on the climate crisis in the Arctic. (Andrew Stuhl, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2016, 232 p. )

Subjects: Climate change, Colonialism

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What I remember, what I know: The life of a high Arctic exile

Larry Audlaluk

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.They were promised a land of plenty. They were given an inhospitable polar desert. (Larry Audlaluk, Iqaluit, Inhabit Media, 2020.)

Subjects: Cultural identity, Inuit, Nunavik

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What is the imaginated North? Ethical Principles

Daniel Chartier

Essay on the multidisciplinary methodology of the North and the cultural Arctic and its ethical principles. (Daniel Chartier, Montréal and Harstad (Norway), Imaginaire Nord and Arctic Arts Summit, coll. « Isberg », 2018, 157 p. Translated from French by Christina Duck Kannenberg.)

Subjects: Culture, Imaginary North, Nordicity

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