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![Hunter with Harpoon (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/patsauq_harpoon.jpg)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
![Indigenous writes : A guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit issues in Canada](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Indigenous_writes.jpg)
Indigenous writes : A guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit issues in Canada
A collection of committed essays by Metis activist, teacher and intellectual Chelsea Vowel on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada, aimed at breaking down the misconceptions still entrenched in the consciousness of non-Indigenous people, and thus offering the reader a straightforward conversation about various difficult First Nations related issues. (Chelsea Vowel, Winnipeg, HighWater Press, 2016, 290 p.)
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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![Jardin de givre collection](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/jardin-de-givre.jpg)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
![Je te veux vivant](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/je_te_veux_vivant.jpg)
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau : autobiographie (1914-1993) = Inunnik isumainnaqiqujigiallapunga : Inuusirminik allagaliavininga (1914-mit 1993-mut)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/qumaq_inuits_libres.jpg)
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Kuessipan](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kuessipan.jpg)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Kukum](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kuhum_michel_jean.jpg)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![L’appel de l’Arctique](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/huguet_appel_arctique.jpg)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![L’esprit du Nord : propos sur l’autochtonie québécoise](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CaptureEsprit.png)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![La forêt vive : récits fondateurs du peuple innu (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/83417_v_Foret_vive___Recits_fondateurs_du_peuple_innu.jpg)
La forêt vive : récits fondateurs du peuple innu (BAnQ)
This book is made up of four chapters each presenting a legend relating to an aspect of Innu mythology. Each caption is followed by an explanatory text in which the author describes variations that can be found in other storytellers or among other indigenous groups.
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![La saga des Béothuks](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/unnamed.jpg)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
![Labrador. ᓚᐸᑐᐊ.](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Capture_Labrador.png)
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)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/91q8xUpt94L.jpg)
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
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
![Les autochtones et le Québec : des premiers contacts au Plan Nord (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/autochtones-couv-hr.jpg)
Les autochtones et le Québec : des premiers contacts au Plan Nord (BAnQ)
Collective and interdisciplinary work which brings together more than twenty authors, including indigenous actors. It offers a series of eighteen essays that plunge into the heart of the historical and contemporary realities and issues of the eleven indigenous peoples of Quebec.
Subjects: geopolitics, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Indigenous languages
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/L97828944837181.jpg)
Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)
Book examining, from a territorial perspective, questions such as those of the universe of Innu society, its values and its legal order at the time of the arrival of Europeans and its subsequent transformation. The work is intended to be a contribution to the application of the principles of Innu and Nitassinan law.
Subjects: Innu territory, Land occupancy, Law
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Les Inuit et les Cris du Nord du Québec Territoire, gouvernance, société et culture (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/inuit_cris_banq.png)
Les Inuit et les Cris du Nord du Québec Territoire, gouvernance, société et culture (BAnQ)
This book consists of understanding how the Cree and Inuit populations of northern Quebec are building the foundations of a new institutional and social framework in the face of recent social changes while maintaining their traditions. Cree society and Inuit society are approached through the prism of three axes: territory-law-governance, society-environment-health and language-culture-heritage.
Subjects: geopolitics, Innu, Inuit, Land occupancy, Self-government, Politics
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- Health Sciences
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
![Les Inuits du Nunavik : territoire, histoire et société](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rousseau_inuits_nunavik.jpg)
Les Inuits du Nunavik : territoire, histoire et société
The history of the Inuit of Nunavik, since prehistoric times, is outlined in this publication. The author also discusses issues concerning contemporary Inuit society, particularly in the areas of education, health, social services, culture, economy, and the environment, among other topics. (Marcel Rousseau, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2021, 608 p.)
Subjects: History, Inuit, Nunavik, Prehistory, Social sciences
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Les récits de notre terre : Les Innus (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Capture.png)
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
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
![Les récits de notre terre : Les Naskapis (BAnQ)](https://atiku.inq.ulaval.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/naskapis_banq.png)
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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- Humanities and Social Sciences