The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on...
Inuit
- Author:Friesen, AngnakulukSummary:
- Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in far northern Canada, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on...
- Author:Dubois, GillesSummary:
Après une vie d’aventures, Nanuktalva, un vieil Inuit, se retire à Timmins, dans le nord de l’Ontario. Il s’y lie d’amitié avec une petite fille de cinq ans, à qui il apprend tout ce qu’il sait sur la vie nordique, ses défis, ses...
- Author:Isluanik, HenrySummary:
Henry Isluanik retells the Kiviuq legend, a version passed on to him by his mother, of a courageous hunter who was swept out to sea during a storm and who spent many years trying to find his way back home.
- Author:Lewis, MarionSummary:
The legend of Kaugjagjuk--a mistreated orphan who gains the strength to stand up for himself with a little help from the Man of the Moon--is a traditional Inuit tale told throughout the Arctic.
Re-imagined for modern audiences by...
- Author:Ward, KellySummary:
Join Kalla as he visits the circus and discovers the many fun-filled ways that numbers, shapes, and patterns exist in the world around us.
- Author:George, Jean CraigheadSummary:
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
- Author:Saladin d'Anglure, Bernard, Frost, Peter, Lévi-Strauss, ClaudeSummary:
Ujarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the heart of Inuit Stories of Being and...
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"The Inuit have experienced colonization and the resulting disregard for the societal systems, beliefs and support structures foundational to Inuit culture for generations. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit - meaning all the extensive...
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"Through interviews with current elders from three regions of Nunavut, Ilagiinniq: Interviews on Inuit Family Values provides a wealth of information on traditional family life. Covering relationships between siblings, elders and...
- Author:Taylor, TheodoreSummary:
Two Inuit brothers must fend for themselves while stranded on an ice floe that is adrift in the Greenland Strait.
- Author:Awa, SolomonSummary:
The iglu, a traditional winter shelter built in the Arctic for centuries, is a vital part of Inuit culture. The qamutiik, a traditional sled used for hunting, is an essential tool whose versatility and dependability have allowed it to...
- Author:Schwartz, Joanne, Mikkigak, QaunakSummary:
Baby ptarmigan will not go to sleep, so his grandmother tells him a bedtime story.
- Author:Issaluk, JohnnySummary:
Traditionally Inuit played games in order to be physically and mentally prepared for freezing weather, strenuous hunts and other grueling conditions.
- Author:Vsetula, Maren, Avingaq, SusanSummary:
"Adventure begins when Grandma takes her two grandchildren out for a trip on the lake. After showing the kids how to prepare of a fishing trip, Grandma and the kids enjoy a day of jigging in the ice for fish. Grandma shows them...
- Author:Jordan-Fenton, ChristySummary:
Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend...
- Author:Rocque, Marie, Maingon, Marie-Pierre, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
Etuk, un jeune Inuit, s’ennuie dans la toundra. Il ne connaît pas la signification du mot « inuksuk » mais un jour, il en fabrique un qui s’anime et qui devient son ami. Il ira même faire la chasse avec lui, ce dont il rêve depuis...
- Author:Moutquin, Marc-AndréSummary:
Solitaire et sans attaches, Jacques suit les conseils d’un ami et accepte un contrat dans un village situé au nord de Puvirnituq, dans le Nunavik. Habitué aux régions éloignées, c’est pourtant la première fois qu’il se retrouve à un...
- Author:Paulsen, GarySummary:
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
- Author:Winter, KathleenSummary:
A chronicle of author Kathleen Winter's journey through the Northwest Passage, including vivid descriptions of the land and its people.