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First Peoples of the North
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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
Innu-Aimun Glossary
Innu–English glossary for the following fields: Medical, Teaching, Environmental Impact Assessment, Family Law and Criminal Law.
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: Indigenous peoples, Innu dictionary, Innu glossary, Innu, Innu-aimun, Innu languageInuit Nunangat (Government of Canada) (Gouvernement du Canada)
Map of 53 Inuit communities in Northern Canada.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Maps, Atlases, and Geospatial Data, Map and Atlases, Northern Canada, *** Maps, Atlases and Geospatial Data ***, Maps and Atlases, Northern Canada
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Maps, Inuit, Northern CanadaInuit print - Growth: I (BAnQ)
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.
Collection(s): *** Archives and Primary Sources ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Archives and Primary Sources
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous art, InuitInuit Unikkaangit / ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖏᑦ (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Host and Archivist Mary Powder reunites Inuit with stories from CBC North’s vast Inuktitut language archives by replaying them for the descendants of the original storytellers, some of whom are hearing them for the very first time. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto, 2020. )
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Archives and Primary Sources
Free - BAnQ Subscribers
Subjects: Inuit, Oral narrativesInuit 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).
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: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Syllabic writing, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut language, NunavikInuktitut dictionary : Tununiq dialect
A dictionary of the Tununiq dialect of Inuktitut (Baffin Island). Text in syllabic fonts only.
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: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Syllabic writing, Baffin Island, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut languageInuktitut Tusaalanga Glossary
Glossary of 5 Inuktitut dialects spoken in Nunavut: Inuinnaqtun, Nattilinmiut, Saallirmiut, South Qikiqtaaluk, and North Qikiqtaaluk.
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: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut glossary, Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut language, NunavutInuvialuit Settlement Region Database (ASTIS)
Contains descriptions of 13,200 research publications about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Databases
Free - Open Access, Free - Reference only, Engineering and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Inuvialuit, Environmental sciences, Social sciences, Northwest Territories, YukonIsumaTV
Web platform for videos filmed by Indigenous directors depicting the contemporary realities of First Nations peoples.
Collection(s): *** General Public ***, Online Films, *** Online Films ***, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Online Films
Free - Open Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Documentaries, Films, Inuit, VideosJardin 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.
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous novels and poetry, *** General Public ***, Indigenous novels and poetry
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
Subjects: InuitJe 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, PoetryJe 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.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays)
Free - BAnQ Subscribers, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Inuit, Nunavik, Cultural identity, HistoryKnowledge Resources & Publications (National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health)
Reports, articles, chapters, bulletins, and other documents dealing with the health and well-being of Canada's First Nations. Freely available resource.
Collection(s): *** Databases ***, Health Sciences, *** First Peoples of the North ***, Databases
Free - Open Access, Health Sciences
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Social determinants of health, Health policy, Family health, Mental healthKukum
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 territoryKuujjuaq: Memories and musings
Concordia (Print Book) | Laval (Print Book)
Autobiography of Kuujjuaq elder, Dorothy Mesher. (Dorothy Mesher, Duncan BC, Unica Publishing Company, 1995, 123 p.)
Collection(s): *** First Peoples of the North ***, Indigenous Authors (Essays)
Print Document, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Inuit, Indigenous authors, Cultural identityLa 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 literatureLabrador Inuttut Dictionary
Inuttut–English and English–Inuttut dictionary produced by the Virtual Museum of Labrador. Inuttut is a dialect of Inuktitut spoken in Labrador.
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: Indigenous peoples, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuttut dictionary, Inuttut, LabradorLe 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 fishingLe 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.
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
Print Document, Reserved Access, Humanities and Social Sciences
Subjects: Atlas, Indigenous peoples, Maps, Migration, Northern QuebecLes 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