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Les récits de notre terre : Les Innus (BAnQ)

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 Some are unpublished.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”.

Subjects: Innu, Innu-aitun, Oral narratives

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Les récits de notre terre : Les Naskapis (BAnQ)

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.

Subjects: Land occupancy, Naskapis, Oral narratives

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Life Among the Qallunaat

Author Mini Aodla Freeman’s account of living in both her traditional world and the settlers’ world. (Mini Aodla Freeman, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 305 p. )

Subjects: Inuit, Colonialism

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Ma peau aime le Nord

First collection of poetry by the young Innu of Ekuanitshit (Mingan) Manon Nolin, Ma peau aime le Nord reveals the boundless attachment that the Innu poet has for her culture, for the traditions of her ancestors, for her territory. Her writing takes an intimate look at the fragility of a disappearing Innu culture, whose strength we can still feel in the thousand-year-old teachings of nature.

Subjects: Côte-Nord, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Indigenous literature, Innu

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Manikanetish : Petite Marguerite

This novel by Naomie Fontaine, Innu from Uashat, depicts the universe of a French teacher posted on an Indian reserve on the North Shore, that of her students who seek to take charge of themselves. Native, she will do everything to save them from despair, even go into the theater with them. The author was a finalist for the 2019 Radio-Canada National Book Combat, a finalist for the 2018 Geneva Book Fair Audience Award and many others.

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Manuel d’initiation à la langue innue (BAnQ)

Innu language initiation manual including an Innu-French lexicon as well as educational exercises.

Subjects: Innu language, Innu dialects, Indigenous languages

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