English Français ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Skip to content About Books Other Material Order News Contact Poster CD Promotional products Kasudluak Encyclopedia, vol. 2 An encyclopedia in 2 volumes explaining various traditional cultural subjects, illustrated with drawings by Tuumasi Kudluk. Sanaaq (english version) Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk’s Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their … →
An encyclopedia in 2 volumes explaining various traditional cultural subjects, illustrated with drawings by Tuumasi Kudluk.
Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk’s 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. Composed in forty-eight 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 …
This book presents an exhaustive summary of the study carried out on katajjaniq, following the designation of this practice as the first element of Quebec’s intangible heritage.
This publication offers an overview of the history of Killiniq, a region first occupied by the Inuit many centuries ago and visited by Artic explorers as soon as 1587.
A rich textual history in English followed by an extensive bilingual photo history in both English and Inuktitut syllabics, this account tracks the region’s “boom and bust” periods, beginning in the mid 1700s through to the start of the James Bay hydroelectric project of the 1970s that either isolated the Inuit and Cree peoples, one from the other, or brought them together in cooperative efforts.
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.
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 …
