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

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Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management

Article that considers indigenous traditional knowledge and practices to ensure ecosystem management. (F. Berkes et al., Ecological Applications, vol. 10, no 5, 2000.)

Subjects: Environment, Indigenous peoples

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Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian

Presentation of treaties made with more than 500 Indigenous peoples or Indigenous groups regarding land sharing, self-government, cultural protection and financial assistance.

Subjects: Bibliography, Economy, Education, Health, Indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples

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Revue Makivik news (BAnQ)

Corpus of the various issues of the quarterly magazine Makivik News. This review, published by the Makivik Corporation, presents the socioeconomic events taking place in the region and also describes the activities organized for the benefit of the Inuit of Nunavik as well as their achievements.

Subjects: Indigenous languages, Indigenous communities, Indigenous affairs

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S’agripper aux fleurs : collectif de femmes innues

Three Innu women (Louise Canapé, Louve Mathieu and Shan dak/Jeanne’Arc Vollant), natives of the North Shore (Quebec), sign this collection imbued with a typically Aboriginal flavor. Their haikus reveal the naked truth of a people of the great outdoors confined to the “reserve”, a reserve which perhaps has the merit of protecting the identity, but which nevertheless cuts wings.

Subjects: Indigenous authors, Indigenous literature, Innu, Innu-aitun, Poetry

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Sahtu Settlement Area Database (ASTIS)

Some 2,100 records describing grey literature (reports by government agencies, Indigenous organizations, universities, and industry), journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and books resulting from research projects in the Sahtu region in the Northwest Territories’ central MacKenzie Valley.

Subjects: Northwest Territories, Social sciences, Indigenous peoples, Environmental sciences, Sahtu

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