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Inuit Nunangat (Government of Canada) (Gouvernement du Canada)

Inuit Nunangat (Government of Canada) (Gouvernement du Canada)

Map of 53 Inuit communities in Northern Canada.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Maps, Northern Canada

Inuit print – Growth: I (BAnQ)

Inuit print – Growth: I (BAnQ)

Print by Ludmila Armate, painter of Polish origin working in Quebec, published in a collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. In the late 1990s, at the instigation of his coming to Kinngait Studios, the Inuit of Cape Dorset were introduced to large-format drawings with oil sticks for the first time.

Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Inuit uqausillaringit : ulirnaisigutiit

Inuit uqausillaringit : ulirnaisigutiit

Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut language, Syllabic writing, Nunavut

Inuktitut (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)

Inuktitut (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)

Inuktitut magazine is published by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit association in Canada. Each colourful issue has several feature articles, first person stories and book reviews. (Inuktitut, 1959 to the present)

Subjects: Culture, Indigenous literature, Inuit

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Inuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect

Inuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect

A dictionary of the Tununiq dialect of Inuktitut (Baffin Island). Text in syllabic fonts only.

Subjects: Baffin Island, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Syllabic writing

Inuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary

Inuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary

Glossary of 5 Inuktitut dialects spoken in Nunavut: Inuinnaqtun, Nattilinmiut, Saallirmiut, South Qikiqtaaluk, and North Qikiqtaaluk.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut language, Nunavut

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database (ASTIS)

Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database (ASTIS)

Contains descriptions of 13,200 research publications about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

Subjects: Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Inuvialuit, Social sciences, Northwest Territories, Yukon

  • Type of access
    • Free - Reference only
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
IsumaTV

IsumaTV

Web platform for videos filmed by Indigenous directors depicting the contemporary realities of First Nations peoples.

Subjects: Documentaries, Films, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Videos

  • Type of access
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Jardin de givre collection

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

  • Type of access
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
Je te veux vivant

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

  • Type of access
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau : autobiographie (1914-1993) = Inunnik isumainnaqiqujigiallapunga : Inuusirminik allagaliavininga (1914-mit 1993-mut)

Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau : autobiographie (1914-1993) = Inunnik isumainnaqiqujigiallapunga : Inuusirminik allagaliavininga (1914-mit 1993-mut)

Taamusi Qumaq (1914-1993), considered one of the great thinkers of the Inuit of Nunavik, devoted his life to recording the lives of his people and their language, while recording the great changes of the 20th century. His autobiography, translated into French and available for the first time in its original language, is a document of great importance that opens up a compelling cultural universe. (Taamusi Qumaq Allatangit, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2020, 309 p.)

Subjects: Cultural identity, History, Inuit, Nunavik

  • Type of access
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Keetsahnak: our missing and murdered indigenous sisters

Keetsahnak: our missing and murdered indigenous sisters

With essays from Indigenous women, this book analyses colonial violence within what is now called “Canada” and provides an anti-violence model from an Indigenous perspective. (Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt eds., Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2018, 400 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Indigenous women

  • Type of access
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Kuessipan

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

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Kukum

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

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Kuujjuaq: Memories and musings

Kuujjuaq: Memories and musings

Autobiography of Kuujjuaq elder, Dorothy Mesher. (Dorothy Mesher, Duncan BC, Unica Publishing Company, 1995, 123 p.)

Subjects: Cultural identity, Indigenous authors, Inuit

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
L’appel de l’Arctique

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

  • Type of access
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
L’esprit du Nord : propos sur l’autochtonie québécoise

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

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
L’Apparition du Nord selon Gérard Mercator (Université Laval)

L’Apparition du Nord selon Gérard Mercator (Université Laval)

Web platform that offers an interactive reading of the first printed map (1595) of the circumpolar North.

Subjects: Cartography, Circumpolar North, Gerardus Mercator, Maps, Polar projection

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
    • Free - Open Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
La forêt vive : récits fondateurs du peuple innu (BAnQ)

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.

Subjects:

  • Type of access
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
La nordicité du Québec : entretiens avec Louis-Edmond Hamelin

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

  • Type of access
    • Printed document
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences