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Canada’s changing North
Collection of texts providing an overview of the geography, history, economy, politics, and ethnology of the Canadian North. (Wonders, William C., Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003, 449 p.)
Subjects: Economy, Ethnology, Geography, History, Indigenous authors, Northern Canada, Politics
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Canadian Nordicity: it is your north, too
A seminal work on northern studies and nordicity that looks at the notion of “the North” (including perceptions and boundaries) in a Canadian context. English translation of Nordicité canadienne. (Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Montreal : Harvest House, 1979.)
Subjects: Geography, Limits of the Canadian North, Northern studies, Northern Canada, Nordicity
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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Carcajou à l’aurore du monde : fragments écrits d’une encyclopédie orale innue (BAnQ)
This book immerses us in the boreal universe of Carcajou, this strange and fabulous being who populates the legends of northern Quebec and Labrador. In the 1970s, Savard recorded narrative sequences of this character after interviewing storytellers from the Ungava Valley and Sheshatshiu in Labrador.
Subjects: Atanukans, Innu, Innu-aitun, Mythology, Oral narratives
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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Circling the midnight sun: Culture and change in the invisible Arctic
Over the course of three years, James Raffan circumnavigated the globe at 66.6 degrees latitude: the Arctic Circle. He set out to put a human face on climate change. In Circling the Midnight Sun, Raffan presents a warm-hearted, engaging portrait of the circumpolar world, but also a deeply affecting story of societies and landscapes in the throes of enormous change. (James Raffan, Toronto, HarperCollins Canada, 2014, 400 p.)
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Climate change
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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Circumpolar Health Atlas
Uses maps, tables, charts, and images to describe and explain the major health problems of the diverse peoples who inhabit the circumpolar region of the northern hemisphere.
Subjects: Atlas, Circumpolar North, Health, Indigenous peoples, Maps, Medical care, Social determinants of health
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- Health Sciences
Comment je perçois la vie, Grand-Mère : Eshi uapataman Nukum
This collection by Rita Mestokosho, Innu woman from the community of Ekuanitshit (Mingan), offers eight Innu-French bilingual texts, then twelve written directly in French.
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Poetry
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Croc fendu
Novel mixing myth and reality, poetry and prose, telling the childhood in the 1970s of a pregnant girl in Nunavut. The beauty of the place rubs shoulders with the ravages caused by alcohol and violence. Spirits and animals are also present. The author, Tanya Tagaq Gillis, is an internationally renowned Inuit artist who incorporates, among other things, throat singing into her musical pieces.
Subjects: Culture, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Dead reckoning : the untold story of the Northwest passage
Documentary work on the discovery and exploration of the Arctic, from the 16th century to the present day, and emphasizing the little-known characters, including several natives, who took part in the expeditions. (Ken McGoogan, Toronto, HarperCollins Canada, 2017, 438 p.)
Subjects: Circumpolar North, Exploration, History, Indigenous peoples, John Franklin
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Dictionary of Native American literature
Dictionary covering the historical emergence of Native American writers (up to 1800) and the Native American Renaissance (1967–). Features bio-critical essays and theme-based articles related to topics such as Native American songs and legends.
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Indigenous peoples
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Dictionnaire français-cri
A dictionary of the Quebec Cree dialect spoken by the Cree on the East Coast of James Bay and in some communities inland.
Subjects: Cree, Cree dictionary, Cree language, Indigenous peoples, James Bay, Northern Quebec
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Dictionnaire montagnais-français
Innu language dictionary compiled from sources in the community of Betsiamites (Pessamit) on Quebec’s North Shore.
Subjects: Betsiamites, Indigenous peoples, Innu, Innu dictionary, Innu language, Innu-aimun, Pessamit
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Do not enter my soul in your shoes : poems
This first collection of poems by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Innu native of Pessamit on the North Shore of Quebec, is a dive into the female body, accompanied by a poetic reflection on exile and the feeling of love. It has received critical acclaim and won the 2013 Société des Ecrivains Francophones d’Amérique Award of Excellence
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Poetry
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Encyclopedia of North American Indians
Encyclopedia featuring articles by 260 specialists on the tribes, main languages, key figures, historic events, and other topics related to North American Indigenous Peoples.
Subjects: History, Indigenous languages, Indigenous peoples
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory (BAnQ)
Originally published in 1894 as a part of the eleventh annual report of the Smithsonian Institution, this reissue of Lucien M. Turner’s classic book chronicles his observations of Indigenous culture on his journey along the Quebec-Labrador coast and during his stay in Fort-Chimo towards the end of the 19th century.
Subjects: Culture, Exploration, Innu, Innu-aitun, Inuit
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Eukuan nin matshi-manitu innushkueu : Je suis une maudite sauvagesse
In this novel, Antane Kapesh wrote to preserve and share her culture, experience, and knowledge, all of which, she felt, were disappearing at an alarming rate because many Elders – like herself – were aged or dying. She wanted to publicly denounce the conditions in which she and the Innu were made to live, and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory, police brutality, and the effects of the residential school system.
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Indigenous literature, Innu-aimun, Innu-aitun
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Finding Franklin : The untold story of a 165-year search
Account of the many research projects that have tried to unravel the mystery of the greatest enigma in the history of polar exploration, the Franklin’s lost expedition. (Russell A. Potter, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016, 262 p.)
Subjects: Exploration, John Franklin
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Floating coast : An environmental history of the Bering Strait
Documentary work on the history of peoples, animal species and environmental changes specific to the Bering Strait. The author notably explores the impact of the economy and the exploitation of natural resources on the delicate balance of this remote area. (Bathsheba Demuth, New York, Norton & Company, 2019, 416 p.)
Subjects: Bering Strait, Environmental changes, History, Politics, Natural Resources
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
Forme et sens des mots du Tunumiisut. Lexique inuit du Groenland oriental: Lexique tunumiisut-anglais-danois
Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).
Subjects: Greenland, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Tunumiisut lexicon, Tunumiisut
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)
Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq’s novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.
Subjects: Canadian arctic, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
I am Inuit: Portraits of places and people of the Arctic
Documentary work by iñupiaq Brian Adams, combining photojournalism with the intimate stories of twenty-one Inuit communities in Alaska. (Brian Adams (photographe) & Julie Decker, Salenstein (Switzerland), Benteli, 2018, 205 p.)
Subjects: Alaska, Customs, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Inuit, Photographs
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- Humanities and Social Sciences