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Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral tradition in their ancient languages and a more recent tradition of written English. Penny Petrone traces the two paths that link the cultural past of arctic peoples with its expression in the present day. The book's first section includes traditional legends, myths, folk history told by native story-tellers, and poetry sung by Inuit composers. The second presents statements and observations by some of the first Inuit to come into contact with European newcomers, including official reports, interviews, letters, and diaries. Next are early poetry and prose in translation, much of it autobiographical. The final section includes contemporary Inuit writing, from essays and speeches to fiction, poetry, and other genres of imaginative literature. The editor has provided an introduction for each item and arranged the material chronologically to give historical perspective and continuity to the whole.

Inuit literature --- Canadian literature --- Inuit --- Inuit --- Inuit authors. --- History

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Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. These are ordinary extraordinary lives: marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. Here the spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family.

Inuit literature --- Canadian literature --- Inuit literature (Canadian) --- Inuit authors. --- Eskimo authors --- Inuit. --- Quebec. --- culture. --- fishing. --- hunting. --- kayak. --- literature. --- novel. --- oral history. --- storytelling. --- tradition.

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Indiens d'Amérique --- Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise --- Indians of North America --- Canadian literature --- Auteurs inuits --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Auteurs métis --- Literary collections. --- Indian authors. --- Inuit authors. --- Métis authors.

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Canadian literature --- Indigenous peoples --- Indians of North America --- Canadian literature --- Canadian literature --- Canadian literature --- Littérature canadienne --- Autochtones --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Littérature canadienne --- Littérature canadienne --- Littérature canadienne --- Native authors --- Literary collections. --- Literary collections. --- Indian authors. --- Inuit authors. --- Métis authors. --- Auteurs autochtones --- Anthologies --- Anthologies --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Auteurs inuit --- Auteurs métis

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The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree). Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide. By treating Indigenous life-writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized historical discourses, Sam McKegney argues that Indigenous life-writings are culturally generative in ways that go beyond disclosure and recompense, re-envisioning what it means to live and write as Indigenous individuals in post-residential school Canada.

Inuit --- Indians of North America --- Canadian literature --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Off-reservation boarding schools. --- Inuit authors --- History and criticism. --- Indian authors --- Ethnic identity. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Indians in literature. --- Inuit in literature --- Off-reservation boarding schools --- Littérature canadienne --- Indiens d'Amérique dans la littérature --- Inuits dans la littérature --- Internats pour Indiens d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Inuits --- Ethnic identity --- Cultural assimilation --- Auteurs indiens d'Amérique --- Histoire et critique --- Auteurs inuit --- Identité ethnique --- Acculturation