For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. In this concise, lively...
Inuit
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Author:Nungak, Zebedee, Curley, TagakSummary: -
Author:Steckley, JohnSummary: - Author:Flaherty, Louise, Williamson, Karla JessenSummary:
This richly illustrated Inuktitut book makes the story of Uumasuusivissuaq accessible to Inuit everywhere. This important story from Inuit cosmology tells how a powerful woman has filled the world with marine life, and continues to...
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This is Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit traditional knowledge) in the flesh, co-editor and translator Jaypeetee Arnakak writes in his introduction to this volume of traditional Inuit stories. The underlying events of a story are perfect...
- Author:Qamaniq, Uvinik, Widermann, Eva, Christopher, NeilSummary:
Experience the exciting world of arctic giants through traditional tales from around Nunavut. Based on elder interviews from more than one hundred years ago, these stories reveal the fearsome giants that once stalked the arctic. From...
- Author:Qitsualik, Rachel A.Summary:
Food quickly grows scarce, during the long winter months for those who cannot hunt. In these difficult time, the grandmother of an orphaned boy wishes aloud for the qallupaluit, strange monsterous creatures that live under the sea ice,...
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Author:Pelly, David F.Summary:The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there. A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in...
- Author:Oosten, Jarich, Miller, Barbara Helen, Buijs, Cunera, Laugrand, Frédéric, Olsthoorn, Thea, Rasing, Willem C.E., Van Dam, Kim, Zorgdrager, NellejetSummary:
The transfer of knowledge is a key issue in the North as Indigenous peoples meet the ongoing need to adapt to cultural and environmental change. In eight essays, experts survey critical issues surrounding the knowledge practices of the...
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Author:Johnston, AviaqSummary:After a strange and violent blizzard leaves young shaman-in-training Pitu stranded on the sea ice--without his dog team or any weapons to defend himself--he soon realizes that he is no longer in the word that he once knew. The storm has...
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Author:Qitsualik-Tinsley, Rachel, Qitsualik-Tinsley, SeanSummary:In the time before animals were as they are today, Raven and Loon were both white. Their feathers had no colour at all. Raven spent his days swooping through the sky trying to fight off his incessant boredom, while loon spent her days...
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Author:Qaunaq, SakiasiSummary:An orphan who is left on the sea ice by a group of cruel hunters is adopted by a polar bear elder.
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Provides information on the Inuit with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
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Author:Christopher, NeilSummary:"Based on the acclaimed animated film of the same name, this visually stunning graphic novel takes readers on a mysterious adventure with two brothers who are lost at sea. It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men. But...
- Author:Christopher, NeilSummary:
"Kudlu's children will not go to sleep until he tells them a story of long ago. Before they will shut their eyes, they want to hear about a time long before Kudlu was born, a time when the world was magic. Before they can sleep, they...
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Author:Kalluk, CelinaSummary:In this bedtime poem, written by Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, an Inuit mother sings to her Kulu--or baby--about animals and other elements in their Arctic world and the gifts they bring to the child, from the summer sun's warm...
- Author:Rich, GeorgeSummary:
George Rich tells the story of growing up as a Labrador Innu caught between two worlds, the settlement of Davis Inlet and the nomadic world of his ancestors.
- Author:Duhaime, GérardSummary:
Willie, le garçon à l’anorak, s’est enfermé dans le mutisme, loin des adultes qui l’ont trahi. Entre les bosquets et les ruisseaux de la toundra, tandis que se joue en silence le sort de la terre meurtrie, il fera connaissance avec des...
- Author:Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean, Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:
"In this adventurous novel--set in the ancient Arctic, but told by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator--a wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens upon a camp in grave peril. The inhabitants of the camp are Tuniit...
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Author:Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:Two gifted northern writers, Rachel A. Qitsualik and Sean A. Tinsley, have collaborated to produce mesmerizing prose interpretations of Inuit creation stories. Readers will be drawn in by the humour, wisdom, and depth of these inspired...
- Author:Christopher, Danny, Akulukjuk, RoselynnSummary:
What creatures lurk beneath the sea ice? Putuguq and Kublu-two siblings who can't seem to get along-are about to find out! On their way to the shoreline, Putuguq and Kublu run into their grandfather, who has a stern warning for the pair...
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