General Public
New! Quality books, maps and atlases, online movies, and websites that attract and address topics of interest for the general public regarding the North and the Arctic, such as Aboriginal peoples, Arctic exploration, the environment and climate change.
Most of the documents are freely accesible on the web or through the digital lending of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (subscription free of charge for any resident of Quebec). The rest of the listed documents are available in print format.
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Resources
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Poetry
Kuessipan
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)
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.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Innu-aitun, Innu
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.
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: Indigenous literature, Indigenous authors, Sedentarization, Innu, Innu territory
L'appel de l'Arctique
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (eBook)
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.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), General Subjects, Exploration
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Culture, Exploration
L'esprit du Nord : propos sur l'autochtonie québécoise
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (Print Book)
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.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Nordicity
La forêt vive : récits fondateurs du peuple innu (BAnQ)
BAnQ (Printed Book) | UQTR (eBook)
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.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects:
La nordicité du Québec : entretiens avec Louis-Edmond Hamelin
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook) | UQTR (Print Book)
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.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays)
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Nordicity, Northern Quebec, Indigenous peoples, Winter, Linguistic
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.
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: Mythologie, Ethnology, Indigenous authors, Colonization, Indigenous literature
Labrador. ᓚᐸᑐᐊ.
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (eBook) | Laval (eBook) | McGill (eBook) | UQAM (eBook)
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.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Illustrated Books
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Labrador, Photographs, Inuit
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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Innu-aitun, Innu, Animals, Hunting and fishing
Le droit au froid : le combat d'une femme pour protéger sa culture, l'Arctique et notre planète
BAnQ (eBook) | Concordia (Print Book) | INRS (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (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. 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.)
Collection(s): Perspectives on Decolonization, *** 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
Le peuple rieur : hommage à mes amis innus
BAnQ (eBook) | BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | McGill (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book) | UQTR (eBook)
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.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu, Indigenous peoples, History
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.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, geopolitics, Indigenous languages, Economic development, Treaties, Colonialism
Les derniers peuples des glaces
BAnQ (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book) | UQAM (Print Book)
Magnificent illustrated book portraying the different peoples of the Far North (Dolganes, Nénets, Tchouktches, Yakoutes, Sâmes, Koriaks and Inuits) through their traditional mores and customs. (Francis Latreille et Erik Orsenna, Paris, Gallimard, 2018, 231 p.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples, Illustrated Books
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Indigenous communities, Customs, Photographs
Les Docus
French-language documentaries about the Arctic.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***
Free - Open Access, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Circumpolar Arctic, Documentaries, French
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.
Collection(s): *** Studying the North ***, Historical Perspectives, Perspectives on Colonialism, *** First Peoples of the North ***, *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Indigenous Peoples
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Innu territory, Law, Land occupancy
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 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
Lettre à un Inuit de 2022 : Un regard angoissé sur le destin d'un peuple
BAnQ (eBook) | Laval (Print Book)
A letter from a Frenchman who has made the Arctic his home for 60 years to convince the Inuit, the Greenlanders and the 26 nationalities of northern Siberia to withstand the temptations of the current system and to establish an ecological humanism in order to live in a healthy, unpolluted environment. (Jean Malaurie, Paris, Fayard, 2015, 157 p.)
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Books (essays), Climate and Environment
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Print Document
Subjects: Greenland, Ecology, Inuit