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L’esprit du Nord : propos sur l’autochtonie québécoise

Collection of essays on the themes of Aboriginal peoples and nordicity by a non-Aboriginal man, lover of the North. (Jean Désy, Montréal, XYZ, 2010, 225 p.)

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Nordicity

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La forêt vive : récits fondateurs du peuple innu (BAnQ)

This book is made up of four chapters each presenting a legend relating to an aspect of Innu mythology. Each caption is followed by an explanatory text in which the author describes variations that can be found in other storytellers or among other indigenous groups.

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La nordicité du Québec : entretiens avec Louis-Edmond Hamelin

Interviews with the father of nordicity on the major themes that shaped his singular intellectual approach: Northern Quebec, Indigenous Peoples, winter and the creation of words to describe the cold world. (Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Jean Désy, Daniel Chartier, Robert Fréchette, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2014, 141 p.)

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Linguistic, Winter, Northern Quebec, Nordicity

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Labrador. ᓚᐸᑐᐊ.

Trilingual album (French, Inuktitut, English) illustrated with photographs by Bob Mesher, Inuit of Nunavik. (Bob Mesher and Danielle Schaub, Québec, Presses de l’Université du Québec, coll. «Imagoborealis», 2014, 90 p.)

Subjects: Labrador, Photographs, Inuit

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Le bestiaire innu : les quadrupèdes (BAnQ)

This encyclopedic-type book brings together Innu knowledge concerning a selection of twenty quadrupeds, ranging from black bears and caribou to various species of mice, including beavers, wolves, hares, dogs and many others. It is based on ethnographic data, historians, missionaries, naturalists, biologists and even accounts from explorers who have traveled through northern Quebec.

Subjects: Animals, Hunting and fishing, Innu, Innu-aitun

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Le droit au froid : le combat d’une femme pour protéger sa culture, l’Arctique et notre planète

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. French version of “The right to be cold : One woman’s story of protecting her culture, the Arctic and the whole planet”. (Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Montréal, Écosociété, 2019, 356 p.)

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

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