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La saga des Béothuks
Historical, mythological, ethnographic, this novel is a masterful work by Bernard Assiniwi, of Cree origin, which won him the France-Quebec Jean-Hamelin Prize in 1997. It makes a fascinating contribution to the rediscovery of indigenous societies, at the same time. time it sheds light on a particularly dramatic episode in the white conquest of America.
Subjects: Colonization, Ethnology, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Mythology
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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Labrador Inuttut Dictionary
Inuttut–English and English–Inuttut dictionary produced by the Virtual Museum of Labrador. Inuttut is a dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Labrador.
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuttut, Inuttut dictionary, Labrador
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- Free - Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Labrador. ᓚᐸᑐᐊ.
Trilingual album (French, Inuktitut, English) illustrated with photographs by Bob Mesher, Inuit of Nunavik. (Bob Mesher and Danielle Schaub, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, coll. «Imagoborealis», 2014, 90 p.)
Subjects: Inuit, Labrador, Photographs
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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Le Nord : habitants et mutations
Historical atlas with rich textual content about the inhabitants of the North (people of the North Shore, Innu, Cree, Naskapi, and Inuit), exploration of the territory, and its maps, as well as industrialization of the region.
Subjects: Atlas, Indigenous peoples, Maps, Migration, Northern Quebec
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- Printed document
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Le Nord, latitudes imaginaires
A collection of comparative and thematic studies by European authors on the idea of the North in literature. (Monique Dubar et al., Villeneuve d’Ascq : Université Charles-de-Gaulle – Lille 3, 2000, 490 p.)
Subjects: Imaginary North, Literature, Northern Europe
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Le Québec économique – Côte-Nord et Nord-du-Québec (CIRANO)
Economic statistics on the Côte-Nord and Nord-du-Québec administrative regions.
Subjects: Côte-Nord, Economy, Northern Quebec, Socio-economic Statistics
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- Free - Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Les Docus
French-language documentaries about the Arctic.
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Documentaries, French
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- Free - Open Access
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- Engineering and Technology
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - Open Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences