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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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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
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- Printed document
- Free - Open Access
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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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- Printed document
- Reserved 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 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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- 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 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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- Reserved 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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- Printed document
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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 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
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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
Ma peau aime le Nord
First collection of poetry by the young Innu of Ekuanitshit (Mingan) Manon Nolin, Ma peau aime le Nord reveals the boundless attachment that the Innu poet has for her culture, for the traditions of her ancestors, for her territory. Her writing takes an intimate look at the fragility of a disappearing Innu culture, whose strength we can still feel in the thousand-year-old teachings of nature.
Subjects: Côte-Nord, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Indigenous literature, Innu
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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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
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
- Natural Sciences
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
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Nunavut Atlas
Atlas depicting land and resource use as claimed by the Inuit as part of the process of the creation of Nunavut. Includes maps on the communities, wildlife, and geographic boundaries of the Inuit world.
Subjects: Borders, Atlas, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Maps, Nunavut
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- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences