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
Statistic Profile - Nord-du-Québec (Institut de la statistique du Québec) (Institut de la statistique du Québec)
Statistical data on the RCMs of the James Bay region and the Kativik Regional Government.
Collection(s): *** Statistics ***, Socio-economic Statistics, Others, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Statistics
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Economy, Jamesie, Kativik, Demographic statistics
Statistics by subject – Aboriginal peoples (Statistics Canada)
Thematic data on the Indigenous Peoples of Canada.
Collection(s): *** Statistics ***, Socio-economic Statistics, Indigenous Peoples, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Statistics
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Canada
Statistique régional - Nord-du-Québec (Institut de la statistique du Québec) (Institut de la statistique du Québec)
Socio-economic statistics on northern Quebec.
Collection(s): *** Statistics ***, Socio-economic Statistics, Others, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Statistics
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Economy, Education, Northern Quebec, Demographic statistics, Socio-economic statistics
Sustainable development action plan 2010-2013
Objectives to promote the practice of sustainable development in the Kativik region of northern Quebec. (Commission de la Qualité de l’environnement Kativik, 2006, 4 p.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Sustainable Development and First Nations
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Sustainable development, Kativik, Northern Quebec, NunavikSustainable Development. Voices of First Nations Young Adults
Reflections from Aboriginal youth in Quebec and Labrador on the issue of sustainable development. (Institut de développement durable des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador, 2017, 143 p.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Sustainable Development and First Nations
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Sustainable development, Indigenous youth, Labrador, Northern Quebec, Indigenous authors
Taqralik magazine: 1974-1986 (BAnQ)
Corpus of the various volumes of the quarterly review Taqralik, formerly published by the Association des Inuit du Nouveau-Québec. This magazine was delivered free of charge to all households benefiting from the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in all Nunavik communities.
Collection(s): *** Archives and Primary Sources ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Archives and Primary Sources
Free - Open Access, Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous affairs, Indigenous communities, Indigenous languages
The Labrador Inuit Through Moravian Eyes
Provides photographs, maps, drawings, and manuscripts on the 250-year relationship between Moravian missionaries and the Inuit of Labrador.
Collection(s): *** Archives and Primary Sources ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Archives and Primary Sources
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Inuit, Labrador, Missionaries, Moravian, Primary Sources
The right to be cold : One woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book)
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. Also available in French under the title "Le droit au froid : le combat d'une femme pour protéger sa culture, l'Arctique et notre planète" (2019). (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Toronto, Allen Lane, 2015, 356 p.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays), *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples, Climate and Environment
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Climate change, Law, Inuit, Indigenous affairs, Indigenous authors
Traditional Animal Foods of Indigenous Peoples of Northern North America
Describes and references the published literature on traditional animal foods known and used by Indigenous Peoples of northern North America; organized by animal, culture, and nutrients.
Collection(s): *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Health Sciences, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others
Free - Open Access, Health Sciences
Subjects: Traditional foods, Indigenous peoples, Nutrition
Treaties with American Indians : an encyclopedia of rights, conflicts, and sovereignty
Concordia (Print book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)
Présentation des traités réalisés avec plus de 500 peuples ou groupes autochtones concernant le partage des terres, l’autonomie gouvernementale, la protection culturelle et l’aide financière.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Others, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Self-government, History, Land sharing, Treaties
Tshakapesh: Montagnais-Naskapi stories (BAnQ)
Available to all | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
Tale of Tshakapesh presented in seven variations by different indigenous storytellers. It is an oral poetry colligation primarily focused on Algonquin spirituality and mythology, which introduces us to the time when humans and animals really shared everything, including the mysterious dream world.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - Open Access, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects:
Uashtessiu : lumière d'automne
BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
In this book, two nomads, poets, healers, one Innu, the other from Quebec, share a love for the same territory: the North Shore and, beyond, the North. Rita Mestokosho is the first Innu poet to have published a collection in Quebec, while Jean Désy is a traveling poet who sails between the South and the North and the worlds of autochthony. Two sensibilities intersect in the space of this poetic exchange which will have lasted four seasons.
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: Innu-aimun, Innu-aitun, Innu, Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Poetry
Uiesh : Quelque part
BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)
This bilingual French-Innu aimum collection of poetry chronicles the life of a city-dweller whose soul and heart have remained in a lost land. Being a tribute to the territory of her ancestors, this book won Joséphine Bacon the Prix des libraires 2019.
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, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Innu-aitun, Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu territory, Poetry
Ulirnaisigutiit : an Inuktitut-English dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador and Eastern Arctic dialects (with an English-Inuktitut index)
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
An English–Inuktitut dictionary of dialects spoken Northern Quebec, Labrador, and the Eastern Arctic.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Eastern Arctic, Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuit, Inuktitut, Labrador, Inuktitut language, Northern Quebec
What I remember, what I know: The life of a high Arctic exile
Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.They were promised a land of plenty. They were given an inhospitable polar desert. (Larry Audlaluk, Iqaluit, Inhabit Media, 2020.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays)
Free - BAnQ Subscribers
Subjects: Inuit, Nunavik, Cultural identity
Wrestling with colonialism on steroids: Quebec Inuit fight for their homeland
Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book)
In this book, Zebedee Nungak provides his account of The Battle of James Bay from 1971-1975, where Inuit and Cree communities fought for their lands and waters against the Quebec government’s James Bay hydro project. (Zebedee Nungak, Montreal, Véhicule Press, 2017, 129p.)
Collection(s): *** Studying the North ***, Perspectives on Colonialism, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays)
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Colonialism, Quebec, James Bay, Indigenous authors, Inuit
Yukon (Statistics Canada) (Statistics Canada)
Census Program key indicators for the Yukon.
Collection(s): *** Statistics ***, Socio-economic Statistics, Census Profile, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Statistics
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Census, Demographic statistics, Yukon
Yupʼik Eskimo dictionary
Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book)
A large-format, two-volume dictionary of the Inuit language of the Yupik of Central Alaska.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Languages, *** Dictionaries and Encyclopedias ***, Humanities and Social Sciences, Languages
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Alaska, Indigenous peoples, Yup’ik dictionary, Yup’ik language, Yup’ik