ᐅᓂᒃᑳᖑᐊᓚᐅᕐᑖ / Unikkaangualaurtaa / Let’s tell a Story (in inuktitut)

This manual contains 26 stories. It has been developped for childcare workers in Inuit communities troughout Nunavik and Canada.


The Botanical Knowledge of the Inuit of Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik

The village of Kangiqsujuag and its surroundings as well at the National Park of Pingualuit, form a vast territory, which, despite appearances contains a great plant diversity.


ᑕᖅᕋᒥᐅᑦ; The Northerners; Les Septentrionaux

Book’s extract: “The Northern Quebec Inuit Association was founded two years ago in Inukjuaq. It was established in response to rapidly changing conditions over which the Inuit apparently were to have little or no control. We were alarmed by assumptions  on the part of the white people in government and elsewhere that we were to …


L’organisation sociale traditionnelle des inuit de Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik (French version)

This ethnographic reconstruction of the Kangiqsujuarmiut traditional social organization was submitted in 1964 as a Master Thesis in anthropology at University of Montreal. Based on data collected in 1961 and 62, this work describes in an outstanding way the physical, historical and social context of one of the least acculturated groups of that time in …


The World of Tivi Etok

A total redesigned edition of this book first published in 2008, with many new artworks. The publication of Tivi Etok’s interviews and stonecuts is a valuable source of wisdom and teaching, worthy of close examination. Inuit and Non-Inuit will find in these pages the story of a courageous and artistic life, and a model for …


Memories of a Kuujjuamiuq

The interview selected for the first publication of Avataq Cultural Institute was given by Willie Cooper, a Kuujjuaq elder, in the spring 1985. It probably is the only interview given by this hunter, deceased in 1986, during his life.


Sipuuja can dress herself on her own

Written by Elsie Kasudluak Drawn by Qumaq Mangiuk Iyaituk


Qimutsiutiliurniq: How to raise a dog team

The advice of an elder from Inukjuak who possesses a wealth of knowledge on the way to best raise a dog team.