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Treaties with American Indians : an encyclopedia of rights, conflicts, and sovereignty

Donald Lee Fixico

Présentation des traités réalisés avec plus de 500 peuples ou groupes autochtones concernant le partage des terres, l’autonomie gouvernementale, la protection culturelle et l’aide financière.

Subjects: Indigenous peoples, Land sharing, Self-government, Treaties, History

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Tshakapesh: Montagnais-Naskapi stories

Madeleine Lefebvre

Tale of Tshakapesh presented in seven variations by different indigenous storytellers. It is an oral poetry colligation primarily focused on Algonquin spirituality and mythology, which introduces us to the time when humans and animals really shared everything, including the mysterious dream world.

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Uashtessiu : lumière d’automne

Jean Désy, Rita Mestokosho

In this book, two nomads, poets, healers, one Innu, the other from Quebec, share a love for the same territory: the North Shore and, beyond, the North. Rita Mestokosho is the first Innu poet to have published a collection in Quebec, while Jean Désy is a traveling poet who sails between the South and the North and the worlds of autochthony. Two sensibilities intersect in the space of this poetic exchange which will have lasted four seasons.

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

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Uiesh : Quelque part

Joséphine Bacon

This bilingual French-Innu aimum collection of poetry chronicles the life of a city-dweller whose soul and heart have remained in a lost land. Being a tribute to the territory of her ancestors, this book won Joséphine Bacon the Prix des libraires 2019.

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

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Ulirnaisigutiit : an Inuktitut-English dictionary of Northern Quebec, Labrador and Eastern Arctic dialects (with an English-Inuktitut index)

Lucien Schneider

An English–Inuktitut dictionary of dialects spoken Northern Quebec, Labrador, and the Eastern Arctic.

Subjects: Inuit, Inuktitut, Inuktitut dialects, Inuktitut Dictionary, Inuktitut language, Labrador, Northern Quebec, Eastern Arctic, Indigenous peoples

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What I remember, what I know: The life of a high Arctic exile

Larry Audlaluk

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the High Arctic in the early 1950s.They were promised a land of plenty. They were given an inhospitable polar desert. (Larry Audlaluk, Iqaluit, Inhabit Media, 2020.)

Subjects: Inuit, Nunavik, Cultural identity

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