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Inuit print – Growth: I (BAnQ)

Print by Ludmila Armate, painter of Polish origin working in Quebec, published in a collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. In the late 1990s, at the instigation of his coming to Kinngait Studios, the Inuit of Cape Dorset were introduced to large-format drawings with oil sticks for the first time.

Subjects: Indigenous art, Inuit

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Inuit Unikkaangit / ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

Host and Archivist Mary Powder reunites Inuit with stories from CBC North’s vast Inuktitut language archives by replaying them for the descendants of the original storytellers, some of whom are hearing them for the very first time. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, 2020. )

Subjects: Inuit, Oral narratives

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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

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Inuktitut (Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)

Inuktitut magazine is published by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit association in Canada. Each colourful issue has several feature articles, first person stories and book reviews. (Inuktitut, 1959 to the present)

Subjects: Culture, Indigenous literature, Inuit

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Inuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect

A dictionary of the Tununiq dialect of Inuktitut (Baffin Island). Text in syllabic fonts only.

Subjects: Baffin Island, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Syllabic writing

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Inuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary

Glossary of 5 Inuktitut dialects spoken in Nunavut: Inuinnaqtun, Nattilinmiut, Saallirmiut, South Qikiqtaaluk, and North Qikiqtaaluk.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut language, Nunavut

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Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database (ASTIS)

Contains descriptions of 13,200 research publications about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

Subjects: Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Inuvialuit, Social sciences, Northwest Territories, Yukon

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IsumaTV

Web platform for videos filmed by Indigenous directors depicting the contemporary realities of First Nations peoples.

Subjects: Documentaries, Films, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Videos

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Jardin de givre collection

The literary works in this collection, published by the International Laboratory for Research on the Imaginary of the North, Winter and the Arctic, aim to document, study and interpret the northern Quebecois and circumpolar imagination from a multicultural perspective, comparative and multidisciplinary. They particularly value comparisons between the cultures of Quebec, Scandinavia, Finland and the Inuit world.

Subjects: Inuit

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Je te veux vivant

This collection of poetry by Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau, a Cree Métis born in Rapides-des-Cèdres, inspires hope and life, despite the suffering of mourning and loneliness. The author takes us on two trajectories of pain which, upon leaving, defeat death.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Poetry

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Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau : autobiographie (1914-1993) = Inunnik isumainnaqiqujigiallapunga : Inuusirminik allagaliavininga (1914-mit 1993-mut)

Taamusi Qumaq (1914-1993), considered one of the great thinkers of the Inuit of Nunavik, devoted his life to recording the lives of his people and their language, while recording the great changes of the 20th century. His autobiography, translated into French and available for the first time in its original language, is a document of great importance that opens up a compelling cultural universe. (Taamusi Qumaq Allatangit, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2020, 309 p.)

Subjects: Cultural identity, History, Inuit, Nunavik

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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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Kluane Lake Research Station Bibliography (ASTIS)

References 1,100 publications of geoscience, biology, and high altitude physiology research conducted at the Kluane Lake Research Station in southwestern Yukon.

Subjects: Biology, Earth sciences, Kluane Lake, Physiology, Yukon

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Knowledge Resources & Publications (National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health)

Reports, articles, chapters, bulletins, and other documents dealing with the health and well-being of Canada’s First Nations. Freely available resource.

Subjects: Family health, Health policy, Indigenous peoples, Social determinants of health, Mental health

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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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Kukum

This novel by Innu author and journalist Michel Jean, from the Mashteuiatsh community, tells the story of the brutal sedentarization of the Innu through the unique story of his great-grandmother. This work, which won the France-Quebec Literary Prize, immerses the reader in the life of Almanda Siméon, a white woman who will choose a nomadic life by marrying an Innu from Mashteuiatsh.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu territory, Sedentarization

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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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L’appel de l’Arctique

In this travelogue with a preface by Jean Malaurie, Jean-Marc Huguet, Doctor of Education, travels through the territories of the Great North, the lands of Ellesmere, Baffin, Greenland and Svalbard, regions that compel the traveller to cast his gaze far and wide. (Jean-Marc Huguet, Paris, Harmattan, 2010, 167 p.)

Subjects: Culture, Exploration

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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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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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