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Le(s) Nord(s) imaginaire(s)

A collection of essays offering an international perspective on the idea of the North in literature and the arts. (Daniel Chartier, Montréal : Imaginaire/Nord, 2008, 335 p.)

Subjects: Arts, Discovery, Exploration, Imaginary North, Literature

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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 conditions d’une collaboration éthique entre chercheurs autochtones et non autochtones

Reflections on the methodologies and concepts used in Indigenous Studies (abstract in English). (Karine Gentelet, Cahiers de recherche sociologique, no 48, 2009.)

Subjects: Indigenous studies, Research ethics, Research methodologies, Research with Indigenous peoples, Research by Indigenous peoples

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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 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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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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Lettre à un Inuit de 2022 : Un regard angoissé sur le destin d’un peuple

A letter from a Frenchman who has made the Arctic his home for 60 years to convince the Inuit, the Greenlanders and the 26 nationalities of northern Siberia to withstand the temptations of the current system and to establish an ecological humanism in order to live in a healthy, unpolluted environment. (Jean Malaurie, Paris, Fayard, 2015, 157 p.)

Subjects: Ecology, Greenland, Inuit

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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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Lignes directrices pour la recherche (Institut nordique du Québec)

A discussion paper setting out ethical northern research guidelines with a view to the decolonization of research. It also proposes approaches for conducting research in the North.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous peoples, INQ, Research ethics, Research, Research with Indigenous peoples

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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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