McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

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Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq

For Inuit, the Arctic is a highway, hunting ground, and platform on which life is lived. While the world argues about its sovereignty, security, and resources, the Inuit remind us that they are the original ...

Becoming Inummarik

What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today? Becoming Inummarik focuses on the lives of the first generation of men born and raised primarily in permanent settlements. Forced to balance the difficulties ...

Before Ontario

Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost ...

Women's Work, Women's Art

Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional ...

Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada

First Nations, Inuit, and Métis music in Canada is dynamic and diverse, reflecting continuities with earlier traditions and innovative approaches to creating new musical sounds. Aboriginal Music in Contemporary ...

Collections and Objections

North America's museums are treasured for their collections of Aboriginal ethnographic and archaeological objects. Yet stories of how these artifacts were acquired often reveal unethical acts and troubling ...

Earth into Property

Earth into Property: The Bowl with One Spoon, Part Two explores the relationship between the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the making of global capitalism. Beginning with Christopher Columbus’s ...

Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century

Cora Voyageur is a Dene woman who teaches sociology at the University of Calgary.

Cold Comfort

Graham W. Rowley (1912-2003) was a research professor of northern and Native studies at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Susan Rowley, Graham Rowley’s daughter, is co-editor of Uqalurait: An Oral History ...

Something New in the Air

"A powerful, timely and much-needed reminder of what can be achieved when community needs, government policy, and technological resources are aligned. " Meridian