This bibliography is an introductory reading list intended to increase basic awareness of the history and culture of Inuit of Canada.

All materials listed in this bibliography are available at the Departmental Library of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada in Ottawa. Departmental employees and other libraries may arrange loans by telephone, fax, email, or regular mail. Anyone who is not an employee of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada who wishes to borrow any of these items must contact their own public, school, or office library to arrange an interlibrary loan.

The Library would like to thank Mr. Barry Pottle of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Mr. Morley Hanson of the Nunavut Sivuniksavut Training Program and Prof. Louis-Jacques Dorais of the Department of Anthropology, Université Laval for their assistance in the preparation of this bibliography.

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GENERAL

Alunik, Ishmael. Across Time and Tundra: the Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2003. 230 pages. E100.A33 A48 2003

Brody, Hugh. Inuits, Indiens, chasseurs-cueilleurs : les exilés de l’Éden. Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2003. 406 pages. GN407.3 B7614 2003

Crnkovich, Mary, ed. Gossip: a Spoken History of Women in the North. Ottawa: Canadian Arctic Resources Committee, 1989. 289 pages.
E100.W6 G68

Csonka, Yvon. Les Ahiarmiut : à l’écart des Inuit Caribous. Neuchâtel, France: Éditions Victor Attinger, 1995. xii, 501 pages. E100.A33 C958 1995

Freeman, Milton M. R. Autochtones : l’Arctique. L’encyclopédie
canadienne. Toronto: Fondation Historica, c2006.

Germain, Georges-Hébért, et David Morrison. Inuit : les peuples du froid. Montréal: Libre Expression ; Hull, Que.: Musée canadien des civilisations, 1995. 159 pages. E100 A1 M677

Harvey, Sylvain, ed. Amérindiens et Inuit du Québec. Rédaction et collab. à l'éd. Michel Noël. Québec: Éditions Sylvain Harvey, c2003. 58 pages.
E78.Q3 A432 2003

Inuit of Canada. Ottawa: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, 2003. 36 pages.
E100.A3 I55 2003

The Inuit Way: a Guide to Inuit Culture. Ottawa: Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, 2006. 44 pages. E100.A1 I57 2006 Full text  

MacDonald, John. The Arctic Sky: Inuit Star Lore, Legend, and Astronomy. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1998. 313 pages. E100.F6 M11

Robinson, Gillian, ed. Isuma Inuit Studies Reader: an Inuit Anthology. Montreal: Isuma Pub., 2004. 240 pages. E100.A1 I88 2004

Tulurialik, Ruth Annaqtuusi and David F. Pelly. Qikaaluktut: Images of Inuit Life. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986. No pagination. E100.A71 T84

ART

Hessel, Ingo. Inuit Art: an Introduction. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, c1998. 198 pages. E100.A7 H4

Leroux, Odette, Marion E. Jackson, and Minnie Aodla Freeman, eds. Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre ; Hull, Que.: Canadian Museum of Civilization ; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994. 253 pages. E100.A77 I57 1994

Malaurie, Jean, ed. L’art du Grand Nord. Paris: Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod, c2001, 597 pages. E100.A7 A788 2001

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES

Freeman, Minnie Aodla. Life Among the Qallunaat. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1978. 217 pages. E100.B45 F745

Iqalujjuaq, Levi. Recollections of Levi Iqalujjuaq: the Life of a Baffin Hunter / Iqqaumajangit Levi Iqalujjuup: Qikiqtaalungmi Magqaitiup Inuusinga. Eskimo Point, N.W.T: Inuit Cultural Institute, 1988. 101 pages. E100.B45 I62

Niven, Jennifer. Ada Blackjack: a True Story of Survival in the Arctic. New York: Hyperion, c2003. 431 pages. E100.B45 B5 2003

Nuligak. Mémoires d’un Esquimau : Moi, Nuligak. Traduit par Maurice Métayer. Montréal: Éditions du Jour, 1972. 191 pages. E100.B45 N84214

Wachowich, Nancy. Saqiyuq: Stories from the Lives of Three Inuit Women. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. 301 pages. E100.W6 W34

FOOD

Kavik, Lisi and Miriam Fleming, compilers. Qikiqtamiut Cookbook. [Sanikiluaq, Nun.]: Municipality of Sanikiluaq, [2002] 154 pages.
E100.F63 Q5 2001

HISTORY

Bennett, John and Susan Rowley, eds. Uqalurait: an Oral History of Nunavut. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004. 473 pages. E100.A335 U6 2004

Fossett, Renée. In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Arctic, 1550-1940. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2001. 336 pages. E100.A1 F678

Morrison, David. Chasseurs de l'Arctique : les Inuit et Diamond Jenness, Hull, Que.: Musée canadien des civilisations, 1992. 66 pages.
E100 A1 M6714 MAIN

Petitot, Émile. Les grands Esquimaux. Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit, 1887 ; Ottawa: Canadiana.org, 1998. 346 pages. [PDF, une page à la fois)

Tester, Frank James and Peter Kulchyski. Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1994. 421 pages. E100 A3 T48

HUNTING

Pelly, David F. Sacred Hunt: a Portrait of the Relationship Between Seals and Inuit. Vancouver: Greystone Books, c2001. 127 pages. E100.H8 P45 2001

Thibault, Martin. De la banquise au congélateur : mondialisation et culture au Nunavik. Sainte-Foy, Qué: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2003. xiii, 202 pages. E100.A32 T5 2003

Thorpe, Natasha. Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou. Ikaluktuuthak, Nun.: Tuktu and Nogak Project, 2001. 208 pages. QL737.U5 T467 2001

LANGUAGE

Dorais, Louis-Jacques. From Magic Words to Word Processing: a History of the Inuit Language. Iqaluit, N.W.T.: Arctic College, Nunatta Campus, 1993. 137 pages. PM61 D676

Dorais, Louis-Jacques. La parole inuit : langue, culture et société dans l'Arctique nord-américain. Paris: Peeters, 1996. 331 pages. PM50 D693 1996

LITERATURE AND STORIES

Aupaluktuq, Nancy Pukirnak. La légende de Kiviuq racontée par les dessins de Nancy Pukirnak Aupaluktuq. Ottawa: Affaires indiennes et du Nord Canada, 2006. xiii, 50 pages, en majeure partie ill. coul. E100.F6 A9614 2006

Gedalof, Robin, ed. Paper Stays Put: A Collection of Inuit Writing. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, [1980]. 172 pages. E100 L5 P36

Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk. Sanaaq. Traduit par Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. Paris: Stanké, 2002. 303 pages. E100.L5 M5814

Nungak, Zebedee and Eugene Arima, eds. Inuit Stories: Povungnituk / Légendes inuit : Povungnituk . Translated from Inuktitut into French by Bernard Saladin d'Anglure. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, c1988. 159 pages. E100.A77 I583

Petrone, Penny, ed.. Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. 314 pages. E100 L5 N67

POLITICS

Lynge, Aqqaluk. Inuit: Inuit Issittormiut Kattuffiata oqaluttuassartaa / Histoire de la Conférence Circumpolaire Inuit / The Story of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference. [Nuuk, Greenland?]: Atuakkiorfik, 1993. 123 pages. E100 A1 I579

Lynge, Finn. Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered Peoples. Translated by Marianne Stenbaek. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1992. 118 pages. HV4890.69 A3 L9413

RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY

Laugrand, Frédéric. Representing tuurngait. Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College, Language and Culture Program, c2000. 212 pages. E100.R4 L32 2000

Saladin d’Anglure, Bernard. Être et renaître Inuit: Homme, femme, ou chamane. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2006. 429 pages. E100.R4 S34 2006

Tungilik, Victor and Rachel Uyarasuk. The transition to Christianity. (Inuit Perspectives on the 20th Century, v.1). Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College, 1999. 173 pages. E100.A33 I57

VIDEOS AND DVDS*

Atanarjuat: the fast runner [videorecording]. Directed by Zacharias Kunik. [Igloolik, Nun.]: Igloolik Isuma Productions ; Montreal: NFB [distributor], 2000. 161 min. 1 videocassette. E100.F6 A83 [orange]

If the weather permits [videorecording]. Directed by Elisapie Isaac. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, c2003. 1 DVD. 28 min. E100.A32 I8213 2003 [orange]

Inuuvunga [videorecording]: I am Inuk, I am alive. Directed by Mila Aung-Thwin et al. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, 2004. 1 DVD. 58 min. E100.Y6 I58 2004 [orange]

People of the ice [videorecording]. Directed by Carlos Ferrand. [Montreal]: National Film Board of Canada, c2003. 1 DVD. 52 min. G608 M573 2003

MUSIC*

The Inuit artist world show case. Inukjuak, Nunavik, Que.: Inukjuak Artist Association Inc., 1996. 1 audio CD. ZZ E100.M8 N85 1994 [orange]

The Inuit Artists Project. Toronto: The Centre for Contemporary
Canadian Art, s.d.

Novalinga Family. Traditional Inuit throat singing. Arctic Bay, Nun.:
Nunavut Youth Consulting, [2003]. 1 audio CD and CD-ROM.
ZZE100.M8 N84 [orange]

Nunavik concert. Winnipeg: Sunshine Records, 1995. 1 audio CD.
ZZ E100.M8 N85 1993 [orange]

PERIODICALS

Études Inuit Studies. Québec: Université Laval.
Journal published semiannually in English and French.

Inuktitut. Ottawa: Inuit Tapiriit Kantami.
Magazine published semiannually in Inuktitut, English, and French.

Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. Montreal: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec.
Journal published three times a year.

WEB SITES

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
“Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, formerly Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, is the national voice of Canada's Inuit. Founded in 1971, the organization represents and promotes the interests of Inuit.” - from Backgrounder: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami on the ITK web site.

Pauktuutit
“Pauktuutit is the national voice of Inuit women in Canada. Since its incorporation in 1984, it has advocated on behalf of Inuit women in an effort to ensure their input on national issues of concern to aboriginal peoples in Canada, and to ensure their participation in federal policies and programs.” - from FAQs on Pauktuutit web site.

Inuit Circumpolar Conference “The Inuit Circumpolar Conference represents Inuit from Russia, USA, Greenland, and Canada on all matters of international importance for Inuit. ICC was founded in 1977 to promote Inuit unity, to work towards the protection of the Arctic environment, and to ensure that Inuit were involved in the policy-making process of all matters affecting them, as well as their lands and their seas.” - from ICC’s 10^th General Assembly web page.

Avataq Cultural Institute
“...Avataq Cultural Institute [is] the Inuit cultural organization of Nunavik (Northern Quebec, Canada). [...] Our goal is to ensure that Inuit culture and language continue to thrive into the future, so that our descendants can benefit from the rich heritage passed down to us through the wisdom of our ancestors.” - Home page of web site.

Canadian Inuit History: A Thousand-Year Odyssey. Canadian Museum of Civilization.

* Due to copyright restrictions, audio-visual material is only available for loan to employees of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

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