Nunavik

Author : Ann Vick-Westgate
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552380567

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Nunavik by Ann Vick-Westgate Pdf

"In the pages of this book, you will read of the efforts of many to fearlessly audit the state of education in Nunavik. To diligently seek improvement of an already good system. To fix what is not necessarily broken so that those who come after us will have it even better than we did. The various tensions and differences of opinion are, to me, not contentious at all. The status quo, however good or excellent, is no place to stay. I think all recognize this." - Zebedee Nungak, from the Foreword As a history of the development of self-government in education, Nunavik: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec provides Native perspectives on formal education in Nunavik while offering readers a unique view into contemporary Inuit society. This book documents the development of education from the arrival of the first traders and missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century through the creation of the Kativik School Board and the evaluation of its operations by the Nunavik Education Task Force in the 1990s. Nunavik takes a detailed look at the complex debate of the Inuit of Northern Quebec about the purposes, achievements, and failures of the public schools in their communities, the first Inuit-controlled school district in Canada. Participants in these debates included elders who were educated traditionally, their children with a few years of education in mission and government schools, their grandchildren who attended southern high schools or residential schools, and current students and recent graduates of the Kativik schools. Qallunaat (non-Inuit) were also participants, as residents of Nunavik communities, parents of Inuit children, teachers, administrators, and expert consultants. Illustrated with rich historical photographs (many in colour) and maps from the collections of the Avataq Cultural Institute and the Makivik Corporation, Nunavik provides a uniquely Native perspective on school change in indigenous communities.

Author : Michel Hellman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 2924049350

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Nunavik by Michel Hellman Pdf

Author Michel Hellman meets with his editor Luc Bossé and casually promises to write a sequel to his best-selling book Mile End. But the Montréal neighborhood, with its trendy cafés and gluten-free bakeries, doesn't seem half as inspiring as it used to be. Part memoir and part documentary, Nunavik follows Hellman on a trek through Northern Quebec as he travels to Kuujjuaq, Puvirnituk, Kangiqsujuaq and Kangirsurk, meeting members of the First Nations, activists, hunters and drug dealers along the way. An honest and often funny account of this trip, Nunavik truly feels personal, with the author acknowledging (and challenging) his own prejudices. While the North has had a profound influence on our collective identity as Canadians, it remains an idea - myth rather than reality. Empirical rather than theoretical, Nunavik reflects on the way our relationship to the North has shaped our own cultural landscape.

Author : Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780887554476

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Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk Pdf

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. 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.

Author : Lucien Schneider
Publisher : Presses Université Laval
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 2763770657

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Ulirnaisigutiit by Lucien Schneider Pdf

Inuktitut words in roman orthography and syllabics.

Author : Bernard Saladin d'Anglure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2921644509

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Traditional Social Organization Among the Inuit of Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure Pdf

Author : Michel Hellman
Publisher : POW POW Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 2924049261

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Mile End by Michel Hellman Pdf

A candid memoir which chronicles life in the Mile End, Montreal's hippest neighborhood, Michel Hellman's book begins with the author moving in as a student looking for a cheap apartment and ends with the birth of his first child. Nominated for a Bédéis Causa Award and a Bédélys Award.

Author : Pamela R. Stern
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879126

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Historical Dictionary of the Inuit by Pamela R. Stern Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Inuit provides a history of the indigenous peoples of North Alaska, arctic Canada including Labrador, and Greenland. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Inuits.

Author : Zebedee Nungak
Publisher : Dossier Quebec
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1550654683

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Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids by Zebedee Nungak Pdf

For decades, the Inuit of northern Qu bec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Qu bec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree "Davids" took action when Qu bec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project. They fought in court and at the negotiation table for an accord that effectively became Canada's first land-claims agreement. Nungak's account is accompanied by his essays on Nunavik history. Together they provide a fascinating insight into a virtually unknown chapter of Canadian history.

Author : Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228005148

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Fighting for a Hand to Hold by Samir Shaheen-Hussain Pdf

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.

Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136786808

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Encyclopedia of the Arctic by Mark Nuttall Pdf

With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Author : Thibault Martin,Steven M. Hoffman
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887553567

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Power Struggles by Thibault Martin,Steven M. Hoffman Pdf

Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec 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.Power Struggles brings together perspectives on these issues from both scholars and activists. In debating the relative merits and limits of these agreements, they raise a crucial question: Is Canada on the eve of a new relationship with First Nations, or do the same colonial attitudes that have long characterized Canadian-Aboriginal relations still prevail?

Author : Louis-Jacques Dorais
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773581760

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The Language of the Inuit by Louis-Jacques Dorais Pdf

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.

Author : IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. Working Meeting Oslo, Norway),Andrew E. Derocher,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Polar bear
ISBN : 2831704596

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Polar Bears by IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group. Working Meeting Oslo, Norway),Andrew E. Derocher,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission Pdf

Author : Larry Audlaluk
Publisher : Inhabit Media
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Canada, Northern
ISBN : 177227237X

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What I Remember, What I Know by Larry Audlaluk Pdf

Larry Audlaluk has seen incredible changes in his lifetime. Born in northern Quebec, he relocated with his family to the High Arctic in the early 1950s. They were promised a land of plenty. They discovered an inhospitable polar desert. Sharing memories both painful and joyous, Larry takes the reader on a journey to the Arctic as his family struggles to survive and new communities are formed. By turns heart-wrenching and and humorous. Larry tells of his journey through relocation, illness, residential schooling, and the encroachment of southern culture.

Author : Eddy Weetaltuk
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780887555343

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From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk Pdf

“My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422.” So begins From the "Tundra to the Trenches." Weetaltuk means “innocent eyes” in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422 to identify Eddy. In 1951, Eddy decided to leave James Bay. Because Inuit weren’t allowed to leave the North, he changed his name and used this new identity to enlist in the Canadian Forces: Edward Weetaltuk, E9-422, became Eddy Vital, SC-17515, and headed off to fight in the Korean War. In 1967, after fifteen years in the Canadian Forces, Eddy returned home. He worked with Inuit youth struggling with drug and alcohol addiction, and, in 1974, started writing his life’s story. This compelling memoir traces an Inuk’s experiences of world travel and military service. Looking back on his life, Weetaltuk wanted to show young Inuit that they can do and be what they choose. From the Tundra to the Trenches is the fourth book in the First Voices, First Texts series, which publishes lost or underappreciated texts by Indigenous writers. This new English edition of Eddy Weetaltuk’s memoir includes a foreword and appendix by Thibault Martin and an introduction by Isabelle St-Amand.