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Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit : Ce que les Inuits savent depuis toujours

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La culture et les croyances inuites, pratiquées dans un environnement nordique exigeant, offrent des perspectives et des connaissances particulièrement pertinentes pour appréhender le monde moderne. Dans un esprit de transmission, ce livre rassemble les témoignages d'aînés abordant des sujets qui, espèrent-ils, permettront une compréhension plus profonde des pratiques et des savoirs inuits. Les enseignements transmis à travers leurs récits guideront le lectorat vers des façons d'être et de penser en vue du bien commun. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit : ce que les Inuits savent depuis toujours offre une perspective inuite sur la croissance et le développement personnels, sur les relations que nous entretenons les uns avec les autres, avec les autres êtres vivants et avec l'environnement. Il s'adresse aux générations actuelles et futures, inuites comme non inuites.

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Theory of water: Nishnaabe maps to the times ahead

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A genre-bending exploration of that most elemental force—water—through Indigenous storytelling, personal memory, and the work of influential artists and writers For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took solace in skiing—in all kinds of weather, on all kinds of snow across all kinds of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. Recently, as she skied on this path against the backdrop of uncertainty, environmental devastation, rising authoritarianism and ongoing social injustice, her mind turned to the water in the creek and an elemental What might it mean to truly listen to water? To know water? To exist with and alongside water? So began a quest to understand her people's historical, cultural, and ongoing interactions with water in all its forms (ice, snow, rain, perspiration, breath). Pulling together these threads, Leanne began to see how a "Theory of Water" might suggest a radical rethinking of relationships between beings and forces in the world today. In this inventive work, Simpson draws on Nishnaabeg origin stories while artfully weaving the work of influential writers and artists alongside her personal memories and experience—and in doing so, reimagines water as a catalyst for radical transformation, capable of birthing a new world.

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L'hiver dans les discours de la côte du Labrador/Nunatsiavut

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Dans cet essai, Marie-Michèle Ouellet-Bernier nous invite à explorer l’hiver à travers le prisme des discours et des récits qui ont façonné notre compréhension de cette saison rigoureuse sur la côte du Labrador. Loin de se limiter aux seules données climatiques, l’autrice y intègre les perceptions humaines, les traditions inuites et les récits d’explorateurs pour construire une analyse interdisciplinaire qui traverse les frontières de la littérature, de la climatologie et de la culture.

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A Canadian climate of mind : passages from fur to energy and beyond

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The twenty-first century is a period of great environmental and social transformation as climate change increasingly marks lives at levels that are personal, familial, communal, national, and global. ''A Canadian Climate of Mind'' presents stories that emerge from the waters, lands, and climate of Canada, and which have the potential to renew a compassionate energy for changing human relations with each other and with our world. Weaving together voices from numerous backgrounds and time periods with Indigenous views on present and past environmental challenges, ''A Canadian Climate of Mind'' illuminates a world that is being shaken to its core while we hesitate to act.

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Far off Metal River : Inuit lands. settler stories, and the making of the contemporary Arctic

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In 1771, Samuel Hearne, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, set off with a group of Dene guides to explore part of the Central Arctic. Twenty-four years later, Hearne's gruesome account of what has become known as the Bloody Falls massacre, an alleged attack by his guides on a camp of sleeping Inuit, was published. In ''Far Off Metal River'', author Emilie Cameron does not concern herself with whether the murders actually took place (as has been debated since 1795) but instead explores how Hearne's account of the massacre has shaped ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.

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Le droit au froid : combat d'une femme pour protéger sa culture, l'Arctique et la planète

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Les changements climatiques menacent la survie culturelle de nos peuples. Suivant le parcours personnel et militant de l’auteure, « Le droit au froid » analyse les liens entre la sauvegarde de l’Arctique, la survie de la culture inuit – et ultimement du monde – et la dégradation environnementale passée, présente et future. Sheila Watt-Cloutier soutient avec passion que les changements climatiques sont non seulement un enjeu de justice climatique, mais aussi de droits humains qui touche l’ensemble du globe. Car la culture et l’autonomie économique des Inuit, tout comme la faune de l’Arctique, sont tributaires du froid, de la glace et du pergélisol. Les graves perturbations de la température et des événements météorologiques causent la dégradation d’un mode de vie et signifient la négation de leurs droits sociaux, culturels et sanitaires. D’où ce « droit au froid », qui est au cœur de son plaidoyer.

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An indigenous present

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This volume is a gathering of Native North American contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey Gibson, a renowned artist of Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent, ''An Indigenous present'' presents an increasingly visible and expanding field of Indigenous creative practice. It centers individual practices, while acknowledging shared histories, to create a visual experience that foregrounds diverse approaches to concept, form and medium as well as connection, influence, conversation and collaboration. ''An Indigenous present'' foregrounds transculturalism over affiliation and contemporaneity over outmoded categories.

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It's all about the land: Collected talks and interviews on Indigenous resurgence

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Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, ''It’s all about the land'' exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred explains how the Canadian government’s reconciliation agenda is a new form of colonization that is guaranteed to fail. Bringing together Alfred’s speeches and interviews from over the past two decades, the book shows that Indigenous peoples across the world face a stark choice: reconnect with their authentic cultures and values or continue following a slow road to annihilation. Rooted in ancestral spirit, knowledge, and law, ''It’s all about the land'' presents a passionate argument for Indigenous Resurgence as the pathway toward justice for Indigenous peoples.

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Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance

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In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan ''Mni Wiconi''—Water is Life—was about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue. In ''Our history is the future'', Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the #NoDAPL movement from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. While a historian by trade, Estes also draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires), making Our History is the Future at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto.

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The rocks will echo our sorrow: The forced displacement of the northern Sami

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More than a hundred years have passed since the Sámi were forcibly displaced from their homes in northern Norway and Sweden, a hundred years since Elin Anna Labba’s ancestors and relations drove their reindeer over the strait to the mainland for the last time. The place where they lived has remained empty ever since. "We carry our homes in our hearts," Labba shares, citing the Sámi poet Áillohaš. How do you bear that weight if you were forced to leave? In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Labba travels to the lost homeland of her ancestors to tell of the forced removal of the Sámi in the early twentieth century and to reclaim a place in history, and in today’s world, for these Indigenous people of northern Scandinavia.