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Qummut qukiria!: art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi : mobilizing the circumpolar north

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the recovery of traditional practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a traditional woman’s headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond. Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social well-being, and cultural identity (Igloliorte, H. L., Lundström, J.-E., & Hudson, A. (2022). Qummut qukiria!: Art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the circumpolar north. Goose Lane Editions)

Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Circumpolar North, Cultural identity, Indigenous art, Indigenous artists, Indigenous languages, Inuit

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Racism, colonialism, and indigeneity in Canada: a reader

A collection of essays by Indigenous scholars discussing and examining the impacts on racism and settler colonialism on Indigenous communities in what is now called “Canada.” (Martin J. Cannon, Lina Sunseri eds, Don Mills, Oxford University Press, 2018, 263 p. )

Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous peoples

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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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Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian

Presentation of treaties made with more than 500 Indigenous peoples or Indigenous groups regarding land sharing, self-government, cultural protection and financial assistance.

Subjects: Bibliography, Economy, Education, Health, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples

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Research Licensing in Nunavut (Nunavut Research Institute)

Information about the research licenses administered by the Nunavut Research Institute that are required for conducting research in Nunavut.

Subjects: Research licenses, Nunavut, Research permit

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Research Priorities for Quebec First Nations (Commission de la santé et des services sociaux des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador)

Research areas including law, culture and communications, economic development, environment, education and governance.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Research, Research with Indigenous peoples

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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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Rethinking the Great White North: race, nature, and the geographies of whiteness in Canada

Rethinking the Great White North takes a multi-disciplinary approach to deconstructing Canada’s imaginary north. By exploring Canada’s historical geography, the book discusses how racism and whiteness have shaped the country’s identity and systems. (Audrey Kobayashi, Andrew Baldwin, Laura Cameron, Vancouver, UBC Press, c2011, 343 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization, Imaginary North

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Returning to the teachings: exploring aboriginal justice

This book discusses traditional Indigenous knowledge and teachings as a way of both decolonizing the Canadian justice system and assisting Indigenous communities to heal from their traumas. (Rupert Ross, Toronto, Penguin, 2006, 300 p. )

Subjects: Decolonization, Indigenous peoples, Justice

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Revue Makivik news (BAnQ)

Corpus of the various issues of the quarterly magazine Makivik News. This review, published by the Makivik Corporation, presents the socioeconomic events taking place in the region and also describes the activities organized for the benefit of the Inuit of Nunavik as well as their achievements.

Subjects: Indigenous affairs, Indigenous communities, Indigenous languages

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Rhetoric and settler inertia: strategies of Canadian decolonization

This book explores the ways that communication can help the process of decolonizing what is now called “Canada,” highlighting both settler and Indigenous audiences. (Patrick Belanger, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2019, 149 p.)

Subjects: Decolonization, Indian residential schools

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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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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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Sahtu Settlement Area Database (ASTIS)

Some 2,100 records describing grey literature (reports by government agencies, Indigenous organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books resulting from research projects in the Sahtu region in the Northwest Territories’ central MacKenzie Valley.

Subjects: Environmental sciences, Indigenous peoples, Sahtu, Social sciences, Northwest Territories

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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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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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Scopus

Database containing citations for over 69 million articles, chapters, and conference proceedings, primarily in natural sciences, but also in the humanities and social sciences. Features significant coverage of northern and Arctic studies. Contains over 12,000 author profiles and significant coverage of publications in languages other than English.

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Series of photographs: daily life of the Inuit of Nouveau-Québec (now called Nord-du-Québec) (BAnQ)

Series of photographs (1959-1967) taken by Armor Landry in the Nord-du-Québec region during his career as a photojournalist. These photographs are living witnesses of Inuit culture and find their basis in an ethnographic perspective. The Inuit are presented there as part of their daily life, as a family and as a guide to their territory. There are also aerial views of the surrounding flora and photographs of a former Hudson’s Bay Company trading post converted into supply stores. These photos were used for the illustration of newspaper articles and the preparation of reports.

Subjects: Cultural identity, Hunting and fishing, Inuit, Northern Quebec, Nouveau-Québec

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Series of photographs: Health care of the Innu communities of the Lower North Shore (BAnQ)

Corpus of photographs taken from the Pauline Laurin (1923-1994) archival fonds. She was the first nurse of the Montagnais communities (Innu) of the Lower North Shore. Between 1949 and 1960, she photographed the daily life of the Innu communities of Mingan, Natashquan and La Romaine. These photographs also reflect the health intervention work and care provided by the Department of Health and Welfare Canada to these communities.

Subjects: Health, Innu, Innu territory, Medical care, Social determinants of health, Naskapis

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Settler: identity and colonialism in 21st century Canada

Settler explores Canada’s relationships with Indigenous communities and what it means to be a settler within the country. In doing so, it argues that it is important for the country to accept its continuing settler identity so that it may move forward towards decolonizing the lands, waters, and peoples. (Emma Battell Lowman and Adam J. Barker, Halifax, Winnipeg, Fernwood Publishing, 2015, 145 p.)

Subjects: Colonialism, Decolonization

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