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Forme et sens des mots du Tunumiisut. Lexique inuit du Groenland oriental: Lexique tunumiisut-anglais-danois
Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).
Subjects: Greenland, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Tunumiisut lexicon, Tunumiisut
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Historical atlas of the Arctic
An atlas presenting five centuries of polar exploration and mapping, from the first-ever print map of the region (Mercator, 1595) to contemporary mapping of the ocean depths using multibeam bathymetry.
Subjects: Atlas, Cartography, Discovery, Exploration, History
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Historical dictionary of the Inuit
A dictionary with over 450 articles on the social, political, economic, educational, and environmental history of the Inuit in the Circumpolar North.
Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Inuit
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)
Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq’s novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance.
Subjects: Canadian arctic, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Inuit
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
I am Inuit: Portraits of places and people of the Arctic
Documentary work by iñupiaq Brian Adams, combining photojournalism with the intimate stories of twenty-one Inuit communities in Alaska. (Brian Adams (photographe) & Julie Decker, Salenstein (Switzerland), Benteli, 2018, 205 p.)
Subjects: Alaska, Customs, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Inuit, Photographs
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Ililîmôwasinahikan : Ililîmowin – Wemištikôšmowin = A dictionary of Moose Cree : Cree – English
Dictionary of the Moose Cree dialect spoken by the Cree in Moose Factory, Ontario, south of Hudson Bay.
Subjects: Cree, Cree dialects, Cree dictionary, Hudson Bay, Indigenous peoples, Moose Cree
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Impact: colonialism in Canada
A collection of both non-fiction and fiction writings by Indigenous authors reflecting on the impacts of settler colonialism in Canada. (Warren Cariou, Katherena Vermette, Niigaan James Sinclair eds, Winnipeg, Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc., 2017, 198 p. )
Subjects: Colonialism, Indigenous authors
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Innu-English dictionary
Dictionnaires grand format de la langue innu en deux volumes qui présente les dialectes parlés au Québec et au Labrador.
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Innu, Innu dialects, Innu dictionary, Innu language, Innu-aimun
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- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
La saga des Béothuks
Historical, mythological, ethnographic, this novel is a masterful work by Bernard Assiniwi, of Cree origin, which won him the France-Quebec Jean-Hamelin Prize in 1997. It makes a fascinating contribution to the rediscovery of indigenous societies, at the same time. time it sheds light on a particularly dramatic episode in the white conquest of America.
Subjects: Colonization, Ethnology, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Mythology
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural 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 bestiaire innu : les quadrupèdes (BAnQ)
This encyclopedic-type book brings together Innu knowledge concerning a selection of twenty quadrupeds, ranging from black bears and caribou to various species of mice, including beavers, wolves, hares, dogs and many others. It is based on ethnographic data, historians, missionaries, naturalists, biologists and even accounts from explorers who have traveled through northern Quebec.
Subjects: Animals, Hunting and fishing, Innu, Innu-aitun
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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural 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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- Humanities and Social Sciences