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Décoloniser le Canada : Cinquante ans de militantisme autochtone

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Fruit d’une collaboration entre deux grands défenseurs des droits des Premières Nations, ce livre est d’abord le récit de près d’un demi-siècle de militantisme autochtone. Il retrace le parcours personnel et militant d’Arthur Manuel et dresse du même souffle le portrait du renouveau des mouvements de lutte autochtone au pays depuis les années 1970. De la Paix des Braves à la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones, en passant par le rapatriement de la Constitution et les importants jugements de la Cour suprême, cet ouvrage revisite de grands pans de l’histoire canadienne récente. Pour Manuel, la reconnaissance des droits autochtones est le meilleur gage pour assurer la défense de nos territoires devant l’appétit vorace des intérêts privés qui cherchent à faire main basse sur nos ressources naturelles. Dans l’esprit du mouvement Idle No More, il invite aussi à en finir avec l’apathie et l’inaction qui ont caractérisé les relations entre le gouvernement fédéral et les Autochtones. Ce livre est un vibrant appel à la résistance, mais aussi un message d’ouverture invitant à bâtir des ponts entre les communautés autochtones et allochtones.

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Sila: Un conte groenlandais sur les changements climatiques

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« J'adore regarder tourner la planète, voir l'eau se déverser dans la mer, oui, voir l'univers entier ! » Tulugaq veut partir à la découverte du monde et il veut aller loin. Ça ne lui suffit plus de juste voler au-dessus du terrain de jeu et autour de la maison d'Asiaq. Et même s'il a toujours vécu au Groenland, jamais il n'a vu l'inlandsis. Alors, il décide de mettre le cap sur ce grand désert blanc, même si l'idée l'effraie un peu. Les langues autochtones sont un formidable réservoir d'idées et de concepts qui peuvent aider l'humanité à imaginer des manières durables d'interagir avec le reste du monde vivant, et ainsi trouver une voie pour survivre. Sila, Sedna et nuna témoignent par leur complexité de la richesse et de l'unité des cultures inuites autour du pôle : nuna, la territorialité ; sila, la source de tout mouvement et de tout changement ; Sedna, la mère de la mer, coeur d'une mythologie et d'une cosmogonie incroyablement étendues et adaptées aux temps nouveaux. Ces concepts liés, difficilement traduisibles dans les langues occidentales, ramènent les humains au sein d'un tout où ils n'occupent plus le centre du monde, comme le démontre le présent « conte sur les changements climatiques », écrit par la Groenlandaise Lana Hansen.

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The Fourth World: An Indian reality

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Originally published in 1974, this book is a critical work of Indigenous political activism that has long been out of print. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement at that time, with coauthor journalist Michael Posluns, presents a rich historical document that traces the struggle for Indigenous survival as a nation, a culture, and a reality. The authors shed light on alternatives for coexistence that would take place in the Fourth World—an alternative to the new world, the old world, and the Third World. Manuel was the first to develop this concept of the “fourth world” to describe the place occupied by Indigenous nations within colonial nation-states. Accompanied by a new introduction and afterword, this book is as poignant and provocative today as it was when first published.

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The Mohawk Warrior Society: auto-history of the Rotisken'rhakéhte

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This anthology by members of the Mohawk Warrior Society uncovers a hidden history and paints a bold portrait of the spectacular experience of Kanien'kehá:ka survival and self-defense. Providing extensive documentation, context, and analysis, the book features foundational writings by prolific visual artist and polemicist Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall (1918–1993)—such as his landmark 1979 pamphlet, The Warrior’s Handbook, as well as selections of his pioneering artwork. This book contains new oral history by key figures of the Rotisken'rhakéhte's revival in the 1970s, and tells the story of the Warriors’ famous flag, their armed occupation of Ganienkeh in 1974, and the role of their constitution, the Great Peace, in guiding their commitment to freedom and independence. We hear directly the story of how the Kanien'kehá:ka Longhouse became one the most militant resistance groups in North America, gaining international attention with the Oka Crisis of 1990. This auto-history of the Rotisken'rhakéhte is complemented by a Mohawk history timeline from colonization to the present, a glossary of Mohawk political philosophy, and a new map of Iroquoia in Mohawk language. At last, the Mohawk Warriors can tell their own story with their own voices, and to serve as an example and inspiration for future generations struggling against the environmental, cultural, and social devastation cast upon the modern world.

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Theory of water

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For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has found refuge in skiing—in all kinds of weather across different forms of terrain, often following the trail beside a beloved creek near her home. Recently, as she skimmed along this path and meditated on our world's uncertainty—including environmental devastation, the rise of authoritarianism, and the effects of ongoing social injustice—her mind turned to the ice beside her, and the snow beneath her feet. And she asked herself: What might it mean to truly listen to water? To know not only the land on which we live, but the water that surrounds and inhabits us? To coexist with and alongside water? So begins this renowned writer's quest to discover, understand, and trace the historical and cultural interactions of Indigenous peoples with water in all its forms. On her journey, she reflects on the teachings, traditions, stories, and creative work of others in her community—particularly those of her longtime friend Doug Williams, an Elder whose presence suffuses these pages; reads deeply the words of thinkers from other communities whose writing expands her own; and begins to shape a "Theory of Water" that reimagines relationships among all beings and life-forces.

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Split tooth

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Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains.

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Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau

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Chasseur, pêcheur, trappeur et homme politique, Taamusi Qumaq (1914-1993) est considéré comme l'un des grands penseurs des Inuit du Nunavik. Bien qu'unilingue en inuktitut, ce personnage exceptionnel a consacré sa vie à consigner, à l'écrit, la vie des siens ainsi que leur langue – et il s'est à ce titre mérité la reconnaissance de plusieurs institutions, dont celle de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec. Son autobiographie, dont on retrouvera ici la traduction en français, ainsi que pour la première fois sous forme de livre le texte original en inuktitut, constitue un document de grande importance, tant pour les Inuit qui trouveront en lui un modèle, que pour les lecteurs du monde entier qui accèdent par ses mots à un univers culturel fascinant. Avec une introduction de Louis-Jacques Dorais, professeur à l'Université Laval. Ce livre est publié en collaboration avec l'Institut culturel Avataq.

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As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance

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In 'As we have always done', Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.

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Sanaaq: An Inuit novel

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This book is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. These are ordinary extraordinary lives: marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. Here the spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family.

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Beyond settler time: temporal sovereignty and indigenous self-determination

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What does it mean to say that Native peoples exist in the present? In ''Beyond settler time'' Mark Rifkin investigates the dangers of seeking to include Indigenous peoples within settler temporal frameworks. Claims that Native peoples should be recognized as coeval with Euro-Americans, Rifkin argues, implicitly treat dominant non-native ideologies and institutions as the basis for defining time itself. How, though, can Native peoples be understood as dynamic and changing while also not assuming that they belong to a present inherently shared with non-natives? Drawing on physics, phenomenology, queer studies, and postcolonial theory, Rifkin develops the concept of "settler time" to address how Native peoples are both consigned to the past and inserted into the present in ways that normalize non-native histories, geographies, and expectations. Through analysis of various kinds of texts, including government documents, film, fiction, and autobiography, he explores how Native experiences of time exceed and defy such settler impositions. In underscoring the existence of multiple temporalities, Rifkin illustrates how time plays a crucial role in Indigenous peoples' expressions of sovereignty and struggles for self-determination.