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Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian
Presentation of treaties made with more than 500 Indigenous peoples or Indigenous groups regarding land sharing, self-government, cultural protection and financial assistance.
Subjects: Bibliography, Economy, Education, Health, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples
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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Licensing in Nunavut (Nunavut Research Institute)
Information about the research licenses administered by the Nunavut Research Institute that are required for conducting research in Nunavut.
Subjects: Research licenses, Nunavut, Research permit
- Type of access
- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Engineering and Technology
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Research Priorities for Quebec First Nations (Commission de la santé et des services sociaux des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador)
Research areas including law, culture and communications, economic development, environment, education and governance.
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Research, Research with Indigenous peoples
- Type of access
- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Resurgence and reconciliation: indigenous settler-relations and earth teachings
From a multidisciplinary approach, this book seeks to analyse and criticize the two schools of thought, resurgence and reconciliation, that seek to improve and guide Indigenous-settler relations in what is now called Canada. Contibutions by settler and Indigenous authors. (Michael Asch, John Borrows, James Tully eds, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2018, 369 p.)
Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization, Indigenous authors
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- Printed document
- Reserved Access
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Rethinking the Great White North: race, nature, and the geographies of whiteness in Canada
Rethinking the Great White North takes a multi-disciplinary approach to deconstructing Canada’s imaginary north. By exploring Canada’s historical geography, the book discusses how racism and whiteness have shaped the country’s identity and systems. (Audrey Kobayashi, Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, Vancouver, UBC Press, c2011, 343 p.)
Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization, Imaginary North
- Type of access
- Printed document
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Returning to the teachings: exploring aboriginal justice
This book discusses traditional Indigenous knowledge and teachings as a way of both decolonizing the Canadian justice system and assisting Indigenous communities to heal from their traumas. (Rupert Ross, Toronto, Penguin, 2006, 300 p. )
Subjects: Decolonization, Indigenous peoples, Justice
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- Type of access
- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Revue Makivik news (BAnQ)
Corpus of the various issues of the quarterly magazine Makivik News. This review, published by the Makivik Corporation, presents the socioeconomic events taking place in the region and also describes the activities organized for the benefit of the Inuit of Nunavik as well as their achievements.
Subjects: Indigenous affairs, Indigenous communities, Indigenous languages
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- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Rhetoric and settler inertia: strategies of Canadian decolonization
This book explores the ways that communication can help the process of decolonizing what is now called “Canada,” highlighting both settler and Indigenous audiences. (Patrick Belanger, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2019, 149 p.)
Subjects: Decolonization, Indian residential schools
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- Type of access
- Printed document
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
S’agripper aux fleurs : collectif de femmes innues
Three Innu women (Louise Canapé, Louve Mathieu and Shan dak/Jeanne’Arc Vollant), natives of the North Shore (Quebec), sign this collection imbued with a typically Aboriginal flavor. Their haikus reveal the naked truth of a people of the great outdoors confined to the “reserve”, a reserve which perhaps has the merit of protecting the identity, but which nevertheless cuts wings.
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu-aitun, Poetry
- Type of access
- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Sanaaq : an Inuit novel
This novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk (transliterated and translated from Inuktitut to English) recounts the fortunes and misfortunes of Sanaaq before and after the arrival of the first whites in Inuit country. Mitiarjuk allows the reader to discover, as no Westerner anthropologist has yet been able to do it, the life and psychology of the Inuit confronted with extreme nature, the need for sharing and the invasion of their territory by white people and their civilization.
Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit
- Type of access
- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
- Reserved Access
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Scopus
Database containing citations for over 69 million articles, chapters, and conference proceedings, primarily in natural sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences. Features significant coverage of northern and Arctic studies. Contains over 12,000 author profiles and significant coverage of publications in languages other than English.
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- Reserved Access
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- Engineering and Technology
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Series of photographs: daily life of the Inuit of Nouveau-Québec (now called Nord-du-Québec) (BAnQ)
Series of photographs (1959-1967) taken by Armor Landry in the Nord-du-Québec region during his career as a photojournalist. These photographs are living witnesses of Inuit culture and find their basis in an ethnographic perspective. The Inuit are presented there as part of their daily life, as a family and as a guide to their territory. There are also aerial views of the surrounding flora and photographs of a former Hudson’s Bay Company trading post converted into supply stores. These photos were used for the illustration of newspaper articles and the preparation of reports.
Subjects: Cultural identity, Hunting and fishing, Inuit, Northern Quebec, Nouveau-Québec
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- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Series of photographs: Health care of the Innu communities of the Lower North Shore (BAnQ)
Corpus of photographs taken from the Pauline Laurin (1923-1994) archival fonds. She was the first nurse of the Montagnais communities (Innu) of the Lower North Shore. Between 1949 and 1960, she photographed the daily life of the Innu communities of Mingan, Natashquan and La Romaine. These photographs also reflect the health intervention work and care provided by the Department of Health and Welfare Canada to these communities.
Subjects: Health, Innu, Innu territory, Medical care, Social determinants of health, Naskapis
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- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Settler: identity and colonialism in 21st century Canada
Settler explores Canada’s relationships with Indigenous communities and what it means to be a settler within the country. In doing so, it argues that it is important for the country to accept its continuing settler identity so that it may move forward towards decolonizing the lands, waters, and peoples. (Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker, Halifax, Winnipeg, Fernwood Publishing, 2015, 145 p.)
Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization
- Type of access
- Printed document
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Siglit Inuvialuit uqautchiita nutaat kipuktirutait aglipkaqtat = Siglit Inuvialuit Eskimo dictionary
Dictionary of the Siglit dialect of Inuktitut spoken in the Western Canadian Arctic.
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Western Arctic, Siglit
- Type of access
- Printed document
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Sivumut: towards the future together: Inuit women educational leaders in Nunavut and Nunavik
A collection of essays of Inuit women and educational leaders who were part of the first graduate-level university degree for Inuit educators offered in Nunavut: the UPEI Master of Education. These essays touch upon the writers’ experiences with colonial violence and Inuit education. (Fiona Walton and Darlene O’Leary eds., Toronto, Women’s Press, 2015, 166 p.)
Subjects: Decolonization, Education, Indigenous authors, Indigenous women
- Type of access
- Printed document
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Snowy OWL Talks
UArctic Snowy OWL Talks—videos based on public presentations by inspirational leaders—are designed to serve as supplementary course material for students studying in or about the North.
Subjects: Talks, Snowy OWL Talks, UArctic, Videos
Social History of the Eastern Arctic Database
This database contains abstracts of documents that deal principally with what is now Nunavut Territory and includes other material from the Inuvialuit Settlement Area, the Northwest Territories and Nunavik (Arctic Quebec).Designed to provide users with access to documents related to the social history of the Eastern Arctic that are in the archives of Canada. Contains references only.
Subjects: Eastern Arctic, History, Inuit, Nunavut, Primary Sources
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- Free - Reference only
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
SPRI Museum catalogue
Bank of more than 5000 images from the collections of the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge). The images are grouped into eight collections, including the Arctic Material Culture Collection, the Polar Art Collection and the Inuit Art Collection.
Subjects: Arts, Images, Inuit, Material culture, Scott Polar Research Institute
- Type of access
- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences
SPRI Picture Library
One of the largest historical and contemporary photographic libraries related to Arctic and Antarctic exploration, housed by the Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge). Of particular interest is the Picture Library catalog, which gives access to more than 20,000 photographs of British expeditions carried out between 1845 and 1960.
Subjects: British expeditions, Exploration, Photographs, Scott Polar Research Institute
- Type of access
- Free - Open Access
- Domain
- Humanities and Social Sciences