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Carcajou à l’aurore du monde : fragments écrits d’une encyclopédie orale innue (BAnQ)

Carcajou à l’aurore du monde : fragments écrits d’une encyclopédie orale innue (BAnQ)

This book immerses us in the boreal universe of Carcajou, this strange and fabulous being who populates the legends of northern Quebec and Labrador. In the 1970s, Savard recorded narrative sequences of this character after interviewing storytellers from the Ungava Valley and Sheshatshiu in Labrador.

Subjects: Atanukans, Innu, Innu-aitun, Mythology, Oral narratives

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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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Inuit Unikkaangit / ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

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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    • Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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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 Some are unpublished.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

  • Type of access
    • 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