First Peoples of the North

Innu-Aimun Glossary

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Innu–English glossary for the following fields: Medical, Teaching, Environmental Impact Assessment, Family Law and Criminal Law.

Inuit Nunangat (Government of Canada) (Gouvernement du Canada)

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Map of 53 Inuit communities in Northern Canada.

Inuit print - Growth: I (BAnQ)

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Print by Ludmila Armate, painter of Polish origin working in Quebec, published in a collection of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative. In the late 1990s, at the instigation of his coming to Kinngait Studios, the Inuit of Cape Dorset were introduced to large-format drawings with oil sticks for the first time.

Inuit uqausillaringit : ulirnaisigutiit

BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | INRS (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)

Trilingual dictionary of the Tunumiisut dialect of Inuktitut (also known as Ammassalik).

Inuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect

Laval (Print Book)

A dictionary of the Tununiq dialect of Inuktitut (Baffin Island). Text in syllabic fonts only.

Inuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary

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Glossary of 5 Inuktitut dialects spoken in Nunavut: Inuinnaqtun, Nattilinmiut, Saallirmiut, South Qikiqtaaluk, and North Qikiqtaaluk.

Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database (ASTIS)

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Contains descriptions of 13,200 research publications about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

IsumaTV

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Web platform for videos filmed by Indigenous directors depicting the contemporary realities of First Nations peoples.

Jardin de givre collection

BAnQ (Print Book and eBook) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook)

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.

Je te veux vivant

BAnQ (Printed Book) | Laval (Print Book)

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.

Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau : autobiographie (1914-1993) = Inunnik isumainnaqiqujigiallapunga : Inuusirminik allagaliavininga (1914-mit 1993-mut)

BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)

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.)

Knowledge Resources & Publications (National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health)

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Reports, articles, chapters, bulletins, and other documents dealing with the health and well-being of Canada's First Nations. Freely available resource.

Kukum

BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)

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.

La saga des Béothuks

BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)

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.

Labrador Inuttut Dictionary

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Inuttut–English and English–Inuttut dictionary produced by the Virtual Museum of Labrador. Inuttut is a dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Labrador.

Le bestiaire innu : les quadrupèdes (BAnQ)

BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | UQTR (Print book)

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.

Le Nord : habitants et mutations

BAnQ (eBook) | BAnQ (Print Book) | Concordia (Print Book) | INRS (Print Book) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)

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.

Les Innus et le territoire: Innu tipenitamun (BAnQ)

BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)

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.