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Inuit Art Quarterly (Inuit Art Foundation)
This award-winning magazine is dedicated to circumpolar Indigenous art and new and notable indigenous artists. (Inuit Art Quarterly, 1986 to the present)
Subjects: Inuit, Indigenous artists, Indigenous art
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Natural Sciences
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
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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- Reserved Access
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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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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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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- Reserved Access
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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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- Printed document
- 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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- Printed document
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Le Nord : habitants et mutations
Historical atlas with rich textual content about the inhabitants of the North (people of the North Shore, Innu, Cree, Naskapi, and Inuit), exploration of the territory, and its maps, as well as industrialization of the region.
Subjects: Atlas, Indigenous peoples, Maps, Migration, Northern Quebec
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Le peuple rieur : hommage à mes amis innus
History of the Innu from their origins to the present day, written by an anthropologist, Serge Bouchard, who has been around this people for 50 years. (Serge Bouchard & Marie-Christine Lévesque, Montréal, Lux éditeur, 2017, 320 p.)
Subjects: History, Indigenous peoples, Innu
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
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
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Life Among the Qallunaat
Author Mini Aodla Freeman’s account of living in both her traditional world and the settlers’ world. (Mini Aodla Freeman, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 305 p. )
Subjects: Colonialism, Inuit
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Manikanetish : Petite Marguerite
This novel by Naomie Fontaine, Innu from Uashat, depicts the universe of a French teacher posted on an Indian reserve on the North Shore, that of her students who seek to take charge of themselves. Native, she will do everything to save them from despair, even go into the theater with them. The author was a finalist for the 2019 Radio-Canada National Book Combat, a finalist for the 2018 Geneva Book Fair Audience Award and many others.
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- Printed document
- Free - BAnQ Subscribers
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- Humanities and Social Sciences
Mise bas du caribou (Géoindex)
This layer shows the location of caribou calving grounds north of the 52nd parallel.
Subjects: Calving grounds, Caribou, Geospatial data, Northern Quebec
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- Reserved Access
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- Natural Sciences
Modèles numériques d’altitude des villages nordiques à l’échelle 1/2 000 (Géoindex)
Includes digital elevation models covering Inuit villages located north of the 55th parallel. The documents in this series are digital elevation matrices accurate to within one metre.
Subjects: Digital elevation model, Geospatial data, Indigenous peoples, Inuit, Villages
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- Reserved Access
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- Humanities and Social Sciences