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Inspec

Inspec

Database covering the fields of electronic, electrical, and computer engineering, including IT. Contains over 15 million references to journal articles and conference proceedings. Also features a thesaurus with a rich controlled vocabulary.

Subjects: Computer engineering, Electrical engineering, Information technology, Physical sciences

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    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Engineering and Technology
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

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

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    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
  • 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

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  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
La saga des Béothuks

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
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
Labrador. ᓚᐸᑐᐊ.

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
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Le Nord : habitants et mutations

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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  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Le peuple rieur : hommage à mes amis innus

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
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Le(s) Nord(s) imaginaire(s)

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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    • Printed document
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)

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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    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Les récits de notre terre : Les Innus (BAnQ)

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
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Les récits de notre terre : Les Naskapis (BAnQ)

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
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Manikanetish : Petite Marguerite

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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  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Mise bas du caribou (Géoindex)

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

Modèles numériques d’altitude des villages nordiques à l’échelle 1/2 000 (Géoindex)

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

Native American women: a biographical dictionary

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
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Nipimanitu : l’esprit de l’eau

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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    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Natural Sciences
Nordicité canadienne

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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    • Printed document
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Natural Sciences
North American Indian thought and culture

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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    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
Northern visions : new perspectives on the North in Canadian history

Northern visions : new perspectives on the North in Canadian history

A collection of essays presenting a variety of perspectives on the history of the North and on research into the history of the Canadian North. (Kerry Abel et Ken S. Coates, Peterborough : Broadview Press, 2001, 224 p.)

Subjects: History, Northern Canada, Research

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    • Printed document
    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
    • Reserved Access
  • Domain
    • Humanities and Social Sciences