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Fatty Legs: A True Story

A memoir of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s experience at a northern Residential School. (Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, Toronto, Annick Press, 104 p.)

Subjects: Indian residential schools

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Finding Franklin : The untold story of a 165-year search

Account of the many research projects that have tried to unravel the mystery of the greatest enigma in the history of polar exploration, the Franklin’s lost expedition. (Russell A. Potter, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016, 262 p.)

Subjects: Exploration, John Franklin

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Floating coast : An environmental history of the Bering Strait

Documentary work on the history of peoples, animal species and environmental changes specific to the Bering Strait. The author notably explores the impact of the economy and the exploitation of natural resources on the delicate balance of this remote area. (Bathsheba Demuth, New York, Norton & Company, 2019, 416 p.)

Subjects: History, Politics, Natural Resources, Bering Strait, Environmental changes

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I am Inuit: Portraits of places and people of the Arctic

Documentary work by iñupiaq Brian Adams, combining photojournalism with the intimate stories of twenty-one Inuit communities in Alaska. (Brian Adams (photographe) & Julie Decker, Salenstein (Switzerland), Benteli, 2018, 205 p.)

Subjects: Alaska, Customs, Indigenous authors, Indigenous communities, Inuit, Photographs

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Indigenous writes : A guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit issues in Canada

A collection of committed essays by Metis activist, teacher and intellectual Chelsea Vowel on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada, aimed at breaking down the misconceptions still entrenched in the consciousness of non-Indigenous people, and thus offering the reader a straightforward conversation about various difficult First Nations related issues. (Chelsea Vowel, Winnipeg, HighWater Press, 2016, 290 p.)

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L’appel de l’Arctique

In this travelogue with a preface by Jean Malaurie, Jean-Marc Huguet, Doctor of Education, travels through the territories of the Great North, the lands of Ellesmere, Baffin, Greenland and Svalbard, regions that compel the traveller to cast his gaze far and wide. (Jean-Marc Huguet, Paris, Harmattan, 2010, 167 p.)

Subjects: Culture, Exploration

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