First Peoples of the North
This collection is developed for Native communities and both for students and researchers in Native Studies. It brings together a selection of varied and high-quality resources dedicated, in whole or in part, to First Peoples of the North, including the Northern First Nations and Inuit.
Most of the information resources listed are free of charge and freely available. Restricted access resources are only accessible to mentionned universities’ members, but can however be consulted on site.
To consult the various categories and subcategories that this collection contains, use the filter Collection.
Resources
Les Inuit et les Cris du Nord du Québec Territoire, gouvernance, société et culture (BAnQ)
BAnQ (eBook) | UQTR (Print Book) | Laval (eBook)
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: geopolitics, Politics, Inuit, Innu, Self-government, Land occupancy
Les Inuits du Nunavik : territoire, histoire et société
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | UQTR (eBook)
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.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Inuit, Nunavik, Social sciences, History, Prehistory
Les récits de notre terre : Les Innus (BAnQ)
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
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 Some are unpublished.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".
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu, Innu-aitun, Oral narratives
Les récits de notre terre : Les Naskapis (BAnQ)
BAnQ (eBook) | INRS (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Oral narratives, Land occupancy, Naskapis
Life Among the Qallunaat
Concordia (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
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. )
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays)
Reserved Access
Subjects: Inuit, Colonialism
Ma peau aime le Nord
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
First collection of poetry by the young Innu of Ekuanitshit (Mingan) Manon Nolin, Ma peau aime le Nord reveals the boundless attachment that the Innu poet has for her culture, for the traditions of her ancestors, for her territory. Her writing takes an intimate look at the fragility of a disappearing Innu culture, whose strength we can still feel in the thousand-year-old teachings of nature.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Innu, Côte-Nord, Indigenous communities
Manikanetish : Petite Marguerite
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (eBook)
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects:
Manuel d'initiation à la langue innue (BAnQ)
Innu language initiation manual including an Innu-French lexicon as well as educational exercises.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu language, Innu dialects, Indigenous languages
Map of the Kativik region (BAnQ)
Geographic map (scale 1: 1,000,000) of the Kativik region illustrating, among other things, the ancient settlements with Inuit, Cree and Naskapi toponyms.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Maps, Atlases, and Geospatial Data, Map and Atlases, Northern Quebec, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Northern Quebec
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Maps
Mise bas du caribou (Géoindex)
Concordia (Reserved Access) | INRS (Reserved Access) | Laval (Reserved Access) | McGill (Reserved Access) | UQAM (Reserved Access) | UQTR (Reserved Access)
This layer shows the location of caribou calving grounds north of the 52nd parallel.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Maps, Atlases, and Geospatial Data, Geospatial Data, Northern Quebec, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Geospatial Data, Northern Quebec
Reserved Access, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Calving grounds, Caribou, Geospatial data, Northern Quebec
Modèles numériques d'altitude des villages nordiques à l'échelle 1/2 000 (Géoindex)
Concordia (Reserved Access) | INRS (Reserved Access) | Laval (Reserved Access) | McGill (Reserved Access) | UQAM (Reserved Access) | UQTR (Reserved Access)
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Maps, Atlases, and Geospatial Data, Geospatial Data, Northern Quebec, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Geospatial Data, Northern Quebec
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Geospatial data, Inuit, Digital elevation model, Villages
Nametau Innu Glossary
Glossary of the Innu language in English and French. Produced by Musée régional de la Côte-Nord.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu dictionary, Innu, Innu-aimun, Labrador, Innu language, Northern Quebec
Native American Ethnobotany Database: Find Drug, Dyes, Fibre, Food by Indigenous group (University of Michigan)
A database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples from North America, Derived from Plants.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Databases, *** Databases ***, Health Sciences
Free - Open Access, Health Sciences
Subjects: Traditional foods, Indigenous peoples, Ethnobotany, Traditional medicine
Native American women: a biographical dictionary
Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (eBook)
Contains biographical entries on over 250 Indigenous women born between 1499 and 1965.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Indigenous women, History
NFB / Geography and Geology - Artic Region (National Film Board of Canada) (National Film Board of Canada)
Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Online Films, *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***
Free - Open Access, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Documentaries, Films, Videos, Indigenous peoples, Northern Quebec, Labrador, Canadian arctic, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, NFB
NFB / Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) (National Film Board of Canada)
Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Online Films
Free - Open Access, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Documentaries, Films, Videos, Indigenous peoples, Northern Quebec, Labrador, Canadian arctic, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, NFB
NFB / Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) (National Film Board of Canada)
Selection of National Film Board of Canada films, by subject. Some of the films listed here are freely available.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Online Films
Free - Open Access, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Documentaries, Films, Videos, Indigenous peoples, Northern Quebec, Labrador, Canadian arctic, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon, NFB
Nipimanitu : l'esprit de l'eau
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (eBook)
This philosophical poetry collection by sociologist Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Innu of the Essipit community, proposes a change of course in our relationship with the environment and nature, a reorientation for the future, otherwise we would head straight into a reef. Rather, the author lets nature speak for itself and recalls the urgency to act and get back to basics.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Cosmogonic narratives, Innu-aitun, Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Poetry
Nitinikiau innusi : I keep the land alive
Concordia (eBook) | UQTR (eBook) | Laval (eBook)
A collection of Innu environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue's diary entries. (Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2019, 244 p.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays), *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Climate and Environment
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu, Indigenous authors, Environment
North American Indian thought and culture
Concordia (Reserved Access) | Laval (Reserved Access) | McGill (Reserved Access)
Biographies, stories, oral histories, speeches, photographs, drawings and audio files related to Indigenous history and culture in North America. Provides access to documents by people, places, years, type of environments, etc.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Archives and Primary Sources, *** Archives and Primary Sources ***
Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: North America, Indigenous peoples, Culture, History, Primary Sources