An orphan who is left on the sea ice by a group of cruel hunters is adopted by a polar bear elder.
Inuit
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Author:Qaunaq, SakiasiSummary: -
Author:Rumbolt, Paula IkuutaqSummary:In this Inuit tale, the actions of a hare and a fox change the Arctic forever by creating day and night. In very early times, there was no night or day and words spoken by chance could become real. When a hare and a fox meet and express...
- Author:Kusugak, MichaelSummary:
A young girl discovers nature's surprising beauty in this tale from a renowned Inuit storyteller. When Aggataa goes for a cold winter walk with her grandmother, she's surprised by a sudden CRAH! All the birds have flown south for the...
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Author:Polak, MoniqueSummary:Noah Thorpe is spending the school term in George River, in Quebec's Far North, where his dad is an English teacher in the Inuit community. Noah's not too keen about living in the middle of nowhere, but getting away from Montreal has...
- Author:Fossett, ReneeSummary:
One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th century--separated from his family, community, and language--finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the...
- Author:Mikkigak, QaunakSummary:
In this traditional Inuit story, a simple walk on the tundra becomes a life or death journey for a young man. When he comes across a giant who wants to take him home and cook him for dinner, the young mans quick thinking saves him from...
- Author:Ikuutaq Rumbolt, PaulaSummary:
In The Legend of Lightning and Thunder, a traditional legend that has been told in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut for centuries, two siblings resort to stealing from their fellow villagers, and inadvertently introduce lightning and...
- Author:Banting, ErinnSummary:
Provides information on the Inuit with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Christopher, NeilSummary:
Forget fairies and forget vampires! Let yourself be drawn into the dark world of the shape-shifters, ogresses, trolls, and demons of the Canadian Arctic. This collection of field notes meticulously documents the dark side of Inuit...
- Author:Angutinngurniq, JoseSummary:
One of the most terrifying creatures to be found in traditional Inuit stories is the nanurluk, a massive bear the size of an iceberg that lives under the sea ice. Its monstrous size and ice-covered fur make it an almost impenetrable foe...
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Author:Deer, BeatriceSummary:On a cloudless summer night, a fox falls to earth and comes across a family of humans. As the seasons change and they move their camp, she follows them, growing ever more intrigued by human ways--and especially by the oldest son, Irniq...
- Author:Mainprize, ScottSummary:
The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of...
- Author:Komar, DebraSummary:
In 1921, the RCMP arrested two Copper Inuit men under suspicion that the two had murdered their uncle. Both men confessed to the crime through a police interpreter, though the "confession" was highly questionable. The Canadian...
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Author:Christopher, NeilSummary:Based on the acclaimed animated film of the same name, this visually stunning graphic novel takes readers on a mysterious adventure with two brothers who are lost at sea. It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men. But when...
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Author:McGrath, M. J.Summary:Edie Kiglatuk is working as a summer school teacher in the Canadian Arctic. When one of her students is found dead in a nearby lake, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit...
- Author:Dunning, NormaSummary:
Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded...
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Author:Christopher, NeilSummary:Kudlu's children will not go to sleep until he tells them a story of long ago. Before they will shut their eyes, they want to hear about a time long before Kudlu was born, a time when the world was magic. Before they can sleep, they...
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Author:Kalluk, CelinaSummary:In this bedtime poem, written by Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, an Inuit mother sings to her Kulu--or baby--about animals and other elements in their Arctic world and the gifts they bring to the child, from the summer sun's warm...
- Author:Rich, GeorgeSummary:
George Rich tells the story of growing up as a Labrador Innu caught between two worlds, the settlement of Davis Inlet and the nomadic world of his ancestors.
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Author:Tagaq, TanyaSummary:From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as...
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