Cautionary tales
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Janice Grey’s debut collection of short stories, "Cautionary tales", centres narratives of contemporary Inuit lives with searing precision. Her witty, compelling voice relays at once both the intricacy of families and the suspense and intensity of supernatural beings and events; mixing as she does dreams, visions, and the everyday in this powerful new work.
Cautionary tales
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Janice Grey’s debut collection of short stories, "Cautionary tales", centres narratives of contemporary Inuit lives with searing precision. Her witty, compelling voice relays at once both the intricacy of families and the suspense and intensity of supernatural beings and events; mixing as she does dreams, visions, and the everyday in this powerful new work.
Littérature et poésie
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From Abbey SK to Zurich ON, this unique dictionary includes over 6,200 Canadian place names. Canada's diversity is marked not just by geography; this richness is reflected in names of cities, villages, rivers, lakes, mountains, and parks. And the names reflect a range of languages including Cree, Inuit, French, Gaelic, Spanish, Portuguese, Mi'kmaq, and Basque. 2nd edition.
A dictionary of place names of Canada
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From Abbey SK to Zurich ON, this unique dictionary includes over 6,200 Canadian place names. Canada's diversity is marked not just by geography; this richness is reflected in names of cities, villages, rivers, lakes, mountains, and parks. And the names reflect a range of languages including Cree, Inuit, French, Gaelic, Spanish, Portuguese, Mi'kmaq, and Basque. 2nd edition.
Architecture du Canada
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The iglu, a traditional winter shelter built in the Arctic for centuries, is a vital part of Inuit culture. The qamutiik, a traditional sled used for hunting, is an essential tool whose versatility and dependability have allowed it to endure over time. In ''How to build an iglu and a qamutiik,'' Solomon Awa provides thorough how-to instructions on building iglus and(...)
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How to build an iglu & a qamutiik
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The iglu, a traditional winter shelter built in the Arctic for centuries, is a vital part of Inuit culture. The qamutiik, a traditional sled used for hunting, is an essential tool whose versatility and dependability have allowed it to endure over time. In ''How to build an iglu and a qamutiik,'' Solomon Awa provides thorough how-to instructions on building iglus and qamutiiks, along with general background information on their construction and importance to survival.
Costumes
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Dans ce grand livre encyclopédique, Joëlle Jolivet nous offre une petite histoire du costume à travers le monde et les époques. Réalisées en linogravure et colorées à la gouache, les planches de ce beau libre regorgent de ce que l'on a pu inventer pour se vêtir, se parer, faire du sport, travailler, se coiffer ou se chausser... On y découvrira aussi, cachés sous des(...)
Costumes
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Dans ce grand livre encyclopédique, Joëlle Jolivet nous offre une petite histoire du costume à travers le monde et les époques. Réalisées en linogravure et colorées à la gouache, les planches de ce beau libre regorgent de ce que l'on a pu inventer pour se vêtir, se parer, faire du sport, travailler, se coiffer ou se chausser... On y découvrira aussi, cachés sous des volets, les dessous d'une princesse, d'un samouraï, d'une Inuit...
Littérature jeunesse
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This book explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture, of which the author's own background is such an extraordinary example. This is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in the Arctic to become one(...)
The right to be cold: One woman's story of protecting her culture
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This book explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture, of which the author's own background is such an extraordinary example. This is a human story of resilience, commitment, and survival told from the unique vantage point of an Inuk woman who, in spite of many obstacles, rose from humble beginnings in the Arctic to become one of the most influential and decorated environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world.
Autochtone
Corneille apporte la lumière
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Cette légende autochtone est un conte inuit que nous proposons en version française et en dialecte inuktitut. Selon la légende, Corneille traverse l’obscurité afin d’apporter la lumière aux Inuits. L’oiseau s’empare d’une boule de lumière magique et offre ainsi aux Inuits quelque chose qu’ils désirent depuis longtemps. La légende prend vie dans notre publication sous(...)
Corneille apporte la lumière
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Cette légende autochtone est un conte inuit que nous proposons en version française et en dialecte inuktitut. Selon la légende, Corneille traverse l’obscurité afin d’apporter la lumière aux Inuits. L’oiseau s’empare d’une boule de lumière magique et offre ainsi aux Inuits quelque chose qu’ils désirent depuis longtemps. La légende prend vie dans notre publication sous forme d’illustrations colorées et éclatantes réalisées par l’auteure elle-même. Le livre comprend aussi un lexique de 15 mots dans les deux langues, ainsi qu’une section questions/réponses à propos des Inuits du Canada.
Littérature jeunesse
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Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Québec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great Whale Project. In the 1970s, both provinces signed so-called "modern treaties" with First Nations for the(...)
Power struggles : hydro development and first nations in Manitoba and Quebec
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Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Québec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great Whale Project. In the 1970s, both provinces signed so-called "modern treaties" with First Nations for the development of large hydro projects in Aboriginal territories. In recent times, however, the two provinces have diverged in their implementation, and public opinion of these agreements has ranged from celebratory to outrage.
Architecture du Québec
Art and Cold Cash
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'Art and Cold Cash' – a multi-layered, creative investigation that took place from 2004 to 2007 – connected? contemporary art to discourses surrounding money in a series of artistic activities and experiments located in northern and southern Canada. Jack Butler, Sheila Butler and Patrick Mahon, three contemporary artists whose practices are normally situated in southern(...)
Art and Cold Cash
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'Art and Cold Cash' – a multi-layered, creative investigation that took place from 2004 to 2007 – connected? contemporary art to discourses surrounding money in a series of artistic activities and experiments located in northern and southern Canada. Jack Butler, Sheila Butler and Patrick Mahon, three contemporary artists whose practices are normally situated in southern Canada and internationally,? worked on the project in collaboration with writer Ruby Arngna’naaq and artists William Noah, two Inuit? members of the Art and Cold Cash Collective who lived through the change from a barter economy to? capitalism in Baker Lake, Nunavut, during the twentieth century.
Art canadien
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Blouin Orzes est un bureau d'architectes montréalais dont la pratique est essentiellement dédiée aux communautés inuites du Grand Nord québécois et canadien. « Salluit : Explorations nordiques » prend la forme d'un carnet de voyage qui fait un survol de leurs projets et de leurs rencontres avec des personnes d’une résilience exceptionnelle au cœur de paysages(...)
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Salluit : Explorations nordiques / Northern journeys
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Blouin Orzes est un bureau d'architectes montréalais dont la pratique est essentiellement dédiée aux communautés inuites du Grand Nord québécois et canadien. « Salluit : Explorations nordiques » prend la forme d'un carnet de voyage qui fait un survol de leurs projets et de leurs rencontres avec des personnes d’une résilience exceptionnelle au cœur de paysages grandioses. Blouin Orzes is a Montreal-based architecture firm whose practice is dedicated to Inuit communities in the Far North of Quebec and Canada. "Salluit: Northern Journeys" takes the form of a travel diary that documents the firm's projects and their encounters with an exceptionally resilient people in the heart of a sublime landscape.
Labrador
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Labrador - Photographs by Bob Mesher Labrador is one of the last mysterious and virtually inaccessible territories of the North - or so have the European and American explorers claimed over the centuries, as Danielle Schaub writes in the introduction. In this book, the first album of photographs published by an Inuit from Nunavik, Bob Mesher offers an "insider's" vision(...)
Labrador
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Labrador - Photographs by Bob Mesher Labrador is one of the last mysterious and virtually inaccessible territories of the North - or so have the European and American explorers claimed over the centuries, as Danielle Schaub writes in the introduction. In this book, the first album of photographs published by an Inuit from Nunavik, Bob Mesher offers an "insider's" vision of the fascinating land where he was born, following the journey that his family had begun from Northern Quebec to Paradise River. Having returned to Kuujjuaq, as a university graduate and the publisher of Makivik Magazine, Bob Mesher is committed to documenting Northern Quebec and Labrador through thousands of photographs.
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