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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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- 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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- 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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Narrative of a voyage to Hudson’s Bay in His Majesty’s ship Rosamond containing some account of the north-eastern coast of America and of the tribes inhabiting that remote region
An account of British Lieutenant Edward Chappell’s journey to Hudson Bay, published in 1817 and containing maps and illustrations. (Edward Chappell, London, J. Mawman, 1817, 279 p.)
Subjects: British expeditions, Exploration, History, Hudson Bay
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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
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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- 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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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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Objectif Nord : le Québec au-delà du 49e
Illustrated bilingual book (French and English) with pictures showing the beauty and vastness of northern Quebec and texts expressing the love and passion of their authors for this territory. (Serge Bouchard & Jean Désy, Québec, Éditions Sylvain Harvey, 2013, 199 p.)
Subjects: Côte-Nord, Northern Quebec, Nordicity, Photographs
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Orthophotographie noir et blanc des villages nordiques 1/10 000 (2004) (Géoindex)
Set of 161 digital orthophotos representing northern villages (1:10,000).
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Orthophotographs, Quebec, Villages
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Parc national du Québec (Géoindex)
Layer of geospatial data representing Quebec’s provincial parks in the form of polygons, scale 1:100,000.
Subjects: Geospatial data, National parks, Quebec
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- Reserved Access
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- Natural Sciences
Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays? Tanite nene etutamin nitassi?
This novel tells the story of the dispossession of indigenous peoples and the abuses of the colonial system in the form of a philosophical tale. In this work, An Antane Kapesh, the first Innu author, interprets the forest and those who endured colonial history in their flesh and their dignity and explains the world as it was before colonization.
Subjects: Colonization, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu territory
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
Article that considers indigenous traditional knowledge and practices to ensure ecosystem management. (F. Berkes et al., Ecological Applications, vol. 10, no 5, 2000.)
Subjects: Environment, Indigenous peoples
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Resurgence and reconciliation: indigenous settler-relations and earth teachings
From a multidisciplinary approach, this book seeks to analyse and criticize the two schools of thought, resurgence and reconciliation, that seek to improve and guide Indigenous-settler relations in what is now called Canada. Contibutions by settler and Indigenous authors. (Michael Asch, John Borrows, James Tully eds, Toronto, Toronto University Press, 2018, 369 p.)
Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization, Indigenous authors
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Russian Arctic Seas: Navigational conditions and accidents
Bilingual (Russian–English) accounts of activities in the Russian Arctic seas that have resulted in accidents. Specifically, the physical environment and navigation issues in the Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas. Half of the book is devoted to detailed descriptions of nearly 100 accidents caused by heavy ice conditions since 1900. The accidents are categorized according to type and cause, e.g., shipwrecks, forced drift (ice jets in one particular case), overwintering, and various types of vessel damage.
Subjects: Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Oceanography, Russia
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- Engineering and Technology
S’agripper aux fleurs : collectif de femmes innues
Three Innu women (Louise Canapé, Louve Mathieu and Shan dak/Jeanne’Arc Vollant), natives of the North Shore (Quebec), sign this collection imbued with a typically Aboriginal flavor. Their haikus reveal the naked truth of a people of the great outdoors confined to the “reserve”, a reserve which perhaps has the merit of protecting the identity, but which nevertheless cuts wings.
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu-aitun, Poetry
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Sanaaq : an Inuit novel
This novel by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk (transliterated and translated from Inuktitut to English) recounts the fortunes and misfortunes of Sanaaq before and after the arrival of the first whites in Inuit country. Mitiarjuk allows the reader to discover, as no Westerner anthropologist has yet been able to do it, the life and psychology of the Inuit confronted with extreme nature, the need for sharing and the invasion of their territory by white people and their civilization.
Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Saqiyuq: stories from the lives of three Inuit women
Through the stories of three Inuit women over three generations, Saqiyuq discusses the colonization of the North and the Inuit communities’ struggles to maintain and reclaim traditional knowledge and practices. (Nancy Wachowich ; in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak, Montreal, McGill Queen’s University Press, 1999, 309 p.)
Subjects: Colonization, Indigenous women, Inuit
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