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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: Colonialism, Inuit

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Nitinikiau innusi : I keep the land alive

A collection of Innu environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue’s diary entries. (Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2019, 244 p.)

Subjects: Environment, Indigenous authors, Innu

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Qummut qukiria!: art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi : mobilizing the circumpolar north

Qummut Qukiria! celebrates art and culture within and beyond traditional Inuit and Sámi homelands in the Circumpolar Arctic — from the recovery of traditional practices such as storytelling and skin sewing to the development of innovative new art forms such as throatboxing (a hybrid of traditional Inuit throat singing and beatboxing). In this illuminating book, curators, scholars, artists, and activists from Inuit Nunangat, Kalaallit Nunaat, Sápmi, Canada, and Scandinavia address topics as diverse as Sámi rematriation and the revival of the ládjogahpir (a traditional woman’s headgear), the experience of bringing Inuit stone carving to a workshop for inner-city youth, and the decolonizing potential of Traditional Knowledge and its role in contemporary design and beyond. Qummut Qukiria! showcases the thriving art and culture of the Indigenous Circumpolar peoples in the present and demonstrates its importance for the revitalization of language, social well-being, and cultural identity (Igloliorte, H. L., Lundström, J.-E., & Hudson, A. (2022). Qummut qukiria!: Art, culture, and sovereignty across Inuit Nunaat and Sápmi: Mobilizing the circumpolar north. Goose Lane Editions)

Subjects: Indigenous artists, Indigenous languages, Inuit, Circumpolar Arctic, Circumpolar North, Cultural identity, Indigenous art

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Saqiyuq: stories from the lives of three Inuit women

Through the stories of three Inuit women over three generations, Saqiyuq discusses the colonization of the North and the Inuit communities’ struggles to maintain and reclaim traditional knowledge and practices. (Nancy Wachowich ; in collaboration with Apphia Agalakti Awa, Rhoda Kaukjak Katsak, and Sandra Pikujak Katsak, Montreal, McGill Queen’s University Press, 1999, 309 p.)

Subjects: Colonization, Indigenous women, Inuit

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Sivumut: towards the future together: Inuit women educational leaders in Nunavut and Nunavik

A collection of essays of Inuit women and educational leaders who were part of the first graduate-level university degree for Inuit educators offered in Nunavut: the UPEI Master of Education. These essays touch upon the writers’ experiences with colonial violence and Inuit education. (Fiona Walton and Darlene O’Leary eds., Toronto, Women’s Press, 2015, 166 p.)

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous women, Decolonization, Education

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The right to be cold : One woman’s story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

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. Also available in French under the title “Le droit au froid : le combat d’une femme pour protéger sa culture, l’Arctique et notre planète” (2019). (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Toronto, Allen Lane, 2015, 356 p.)

Subjects: Indigenous affairs, Indigenous authors, Inuit, Law, Climate change

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