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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
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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
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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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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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- Humanities and Social 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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- 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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- 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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Reserved Access
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- Natural Sciences
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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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Native American women: a biographical dictionary
Contains biographical entries on over 250 Indigenous women born between 1499 and 1965.
Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Indigenous women
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Nested federalism and Inuit governance in the Canadian Arctic
This book analyses the transition towards Inuit self-governance in Nunavik, the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and Nunatsiavut in the Canadian Arctic. (Gary N. Wilson, Christopher Alcantara, and Thierry Rodon, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2020, 207 p. )
Subjects: Colonialism, Inuit, Self-government
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Nipimanitu : l’esprit de l’eau
This philosophical poetry collection by sociologist Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Innu of the Essipit community, proposes a change of course in our relationship with the environment and nature, a reorientation for the future, otherwise we would head straight into a reef. Rather, the author lets nature speak for itself and recalls the urgency to act and get back to basics.
Subjects: Cosmogonic narratives, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu-aitun, Poetry
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- Natural Sciences
Nitinikiau innusi : I keep the land alive
A collection of Innu environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue’s diary entries. (Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2019, 244 p.)
Subjects: Environment, Indigenous authors, Innu
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Nordicité canadienne
A seminal work on northern studies and nordicity that looks at the notion of “the North” (including perceptions and boundaries) in a Canadian context. (Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Montréal, Hurtubise HMH, 1975, 458 p.)
Subjects: Geography, Limits of the Canadian North, Northern studies, Northern Canada, Nordicity
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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North American Indian thought and culture
Biographies, stories, oral histories, speeches, photographs, drawings and audio files related to Indigenous history and culture in North America. Provides access to documents by people, places, years, type of environments, etc.
Subjects: Culture, History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Primary Sources
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- Humanities and Social Sciences