Nivi has always known that her names were special, but she does not know where they came from. So, one sunny afternoon, Nivi decides to ask her mom how she got her names. The stories of the people Nivi is named after lead her to an...
Inuit
- Auteur:Deal, LauraSommaire:
- Auteur:Schwartz, Joanne, Mikkigak, QaunakSommaire:
Baby ptarmigan will not go to sleep, so his grandmother tells him a bedtime story.
- Auteur:Issaluk, JohnnySommaire:
Traditionally Inuit played games in order to be physically and mentally prepared for freezing weather, strenuous hunts and other grueling conditions.
- Auteur:Weetaltuk, Eddy, Martin, Thibault, St. Amand, IsabelleSommaire:
“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...
- Auteur:Vsetula, Maren, Avingaq, SusanSommaire:
Adventure begins when Grandma takes her two grandchildren out for a trip on the lake. After showing the kids how to prepare of a fishing trip, Grandma and the kids enjoy a day of jigging in the ice for fish. Grandma shows them...
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While the northern experience of residential schools was unique in some ways, the broader themes remain constant. Children were taken from their parents, often with little in the way of consultation or consent. They were educated in an...
- Auteur:Jordan-Fenton, ChristySommaire:
Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend...
- Auteur:Rocque, Marie, Maingon, Marie-Pierre, Therrien, JoanneSommaire:
Etuk, un jeune Inuit, s’ennuie dans la toundra. Il ne connaît pas la signification du mot « inuksuk » mais un jour, il en fabrique un qui s’anime et qui devient son ami. Il ira même faire la chasse avec lui, ce dont il rêve depuis...
- Auteur:Dupuis, MarieSommaire:
Living in his northern village, Etuk is bored. He’d like to go hunting, but he could get lost if he leaves on his own. He builds an inuksuk which then comes to life. Piqati teaches Etuk all about the ancestral mysteries behind these...
- Auteur:Moutquin, Marc-AndréSommaire:
Solitaire et sans attaches, Jacques suit les conseils d’un ami et accepte un contrat dans un village situé au nord de Puvirnituq, dans le Nunavik. Habitué aux régions éloignées, c’est pourtant la première fois qu’il se retrouve à un...
- Auteur:Paulsen, GarySommaire:
A fourteen-year-old Eskimo boy who feels assailed by the modernity of his life takes a 1400-mile journey by dog sled across ice, tundra, and mountains seeking his own "song" of himself.
- Auteur:Winter, KathleenSommaire:
A chronicle of author Kathleen Winter's journey through the Northwest Passage, including vivid descriptions of the land and its people.
- Auteur:Jenkins, McKaySommaire:
In 1913, two Catholic priests set out to the Canadian Arctic to convert isolated Inuit's. Three days after reaching their destination, the two men were murdered. It took years for Western justice to investigate.
- Auteur:Kusugak, Michael Arvaarluk, Krykorka, VladyanaSommaire:
Life in the high Arctic is beautifully captured in this classic picture book, read aloud in digital form by award-winning Inuit author Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak. The year is 1955 and Arvaarluk and his friends watch as Rocky Parsons...
- Auteur:Christopher, NeilSommaire:
When an orphan boy named Ava finds himself cold and alone, he comes upon a group of magical tiny people who show him how it feels to have a home of his own.
- Auteur:Harris, YvonneSommaire:
In the harsh and forbidding landscape of the far north, the path of survival is as slender as a shard of ice. This is the story of the indomitable spirit of a beautiful young woman as she challenges the odds to not only survive but...
- Auteur:Christopher, NeilSommaire:
Arctic Little Folk introduces young readers to the fascinating, strange, and amusing world of Arctic dwarves, fairies, elves, and gnomes. These tiniest inhabitants of the Arctic tundra are told about in folklore across the Arctic.
- Auteur:Rivera, RaquelSommaire:
Describes true dramatized events in the lives of four modern Inuit artists. The stories range from a boy's survival adventure with his dog on shifting ice and a hunter's close-up encounter with a polar bear, to a shaman's...
- Auteur:Dunning, NormaSommaire:
I woke up with Moses Henry’s boot holding open my jaw and my right eye was looking into his gun barrel. I heard the slow words, “Take. It. Back.” I know one thing about Moses Henry; he means business when he means business. I took it...
- Auteur:Tootoo, JordinSommaire:
It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada's Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader...
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