Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled to the north, where he has sat in on community meetings, interviewed elders and...
Nunavut Collection
In the Nunavut Collection, you will find titles about, featuring, or written by an author from Nunavut. We have gathered these collections together in the hopes of making it easier to find content that highlights the stories unique to the provinces and territories across Canada. If you know of a book that should be included in this collection, let us know!
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Author(s):Kulchyski, PeterSummary: - Author(s):Vsetula, Maren, Avingaq, SusanSummary:
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...
- Author(s):Wisdomkeeper, John, Waldron, JulietSummary:
Yaotl and Sascho splashed along the shores of the behchà, spears hefted, watching for the flash of fin to rise to the surface and sparkle in the sunlight. Tender feelings, barely discovered, flushed their faces. Waving their spears...
- Author(s):Hoedeman, CoSummary:
Living through the Nazi occupation of Holland and arriving in Montreal with little more than a film reel under his arm, Co Hoedeman had a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canada’s renowned animation unit. It was there where...
- Author(s):Issaluk, JohnnySummary:
Traditionally Inuit played games in order to be physically and mentally prepared for freezing weather, strenuous hunts and other grueling conditions.
- Author(s):Schwartz, Joanne, Mikkigak, QaunakSummary:
Baby ptarmigan will not go to sleep, so his grandmother tells him a bedtime story.
- Author(s):Awa, SolomonSummary:
The iglu, a traditional winter shelter built in the Arctic for centuries, is a vital part of Inuit culture. The qamutiik, a traditional sled used for hunting, is an essential tool whose versatility and dependability have allowed it to...
- Author(s):Bernauer, Warren, Hicks, Jack, Scottie, JoanSummary:
Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry. Twice, Scottie and her community...
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Inuit qaujimajatuqangit--which means a complete body of knowledge and experience passed from generation to generation--is a collection of contributions by Inuit Elders. It not only helps preserve important knowledge and tradition, but...
- Author(s):Baker, DarrylSummary:
Jake and Kamik are finally ready to run their first dog sled race with a full team! But there is a lot to do to prepare, and Jake must follow his uncle's lead if he and his dogs are going to be ready for the early spring race. Kamik...
- Author(s):Napayok-Short, SuzieSummary:
Akuluk is visiting her family in Nunavut and can't wait to get out on her uncle's boat for a ride into the powerful Arctic Ocean. Surrounded by her family, and with her trusty toy polar bear beside her, Akuluk experiences the beautiful...
- Author(s):Hicks, Jack, White, GrahamSummary:
After years of negotiation, the territory of Nunavut was established in Canada’s Eastern and Central Arctic on April 1, 1999. Made in Nunavut provides the first behind-the-scenes account of the planning that led to this remarkable...
- Author(s):Dick, LyleSummary:
Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit...
- Author(s):Asnong, JoceySummary:
With imaginative text and colourful artwork, Nuptse and Lhotse's latest adventure showcases the history, culture, and environment of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Welcome to the Land of the Midnight Sun! While waiting...
- Author(s):Friesen, AngnakulukSummary:
The northern lights shine, women gather to eat raw caribou meat and everyone could be family in this ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. Sisters Angnakuluk Friesen and Ippiksaut Friesen collaborate on...
- Author(s):Christopher, Danny, Akulukjuk, RoselynnSummary:
What creatures lurk beneath the sea ice? Putuguq and Kublu-two siblings who can't seem to get along-are about to find out! On their way to the shoreline, Putuguq and Kublu run into their grandfather, who has a stern warning for the pair...
- Author(s):Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:
Two gifted northern writers, Rachel A. Qitsualik and Sean A. Tinsley, have collaborated to produce mesmerizing prose interpretations of Inuit creation stories. Readers will be drawn in by the humour, wisdom, and depth of these inspired...
- Author(s):Qitsualik-Tinsley, Sean, Qitsualik-Tinsley, RachelSummary:
In this adventurous novel--set in the ancient Arctic, but told by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator--a wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens upon a camp in grave peril. The inhabitants of the camp are Tuniit...
- Author(s):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...
- Author(s):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...
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