Bibliography
 
 
History Animals and Nature Nunavut and its People Literature Art

 
 

History

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/arctic/inuit/pre-euro.htm
General information about the pre-european period.

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/arctic/inuit/european.htm.
Information about the time of the first contact between the Inuit and Europeans.

http://www.civilization.ca/educat/oracle/modules/dmorrison/page02_e.html
Site about the Inuits Thousand-Year Odyssey
 

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF0/076.html
The "Snowhouse Act", Article #76. Sophisticated description about building snowhouses.
 

http://home.uleth.ca/sfa-gal/TWAM/vr1/pop-ups/19881069.htm
Once again an illustrated site abvout snowhouses.
 

Morrison, David; Germain, Georges-Hébert. Inuit: Glimpses og an Arctic Past.
    Hull, Quebec, Canada 1995.
A book about the Inunit, in particular the Copper Inuit of the Central Canadian Arctic. The story described in the book is set in the year 1909-1910.
 
 



Animals and Nature

www.arctictravel.com
General information about the Inuits and Nunavut.

www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/nunavut
Collection of different tasks on different subtopic for students (biology, literature,art,politics).

www.enchantedlearning.com
Colouring pictures of arctic animals.

www.nunavut.com
General information on Nunavut.

www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Inuit
Useful information on Inuit language, culture and history.

www.itc.ca
Good information on Inuit traditions and values.


Nunavut and its People

http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

Any kind of Canadian Maps (Environment, People and Society, Economic, Historical, Climate Change....)
- And Facts about Canada
- Quizzes
- Learning Resources
- Useful Links

http://www.nunavut.com/nunavut99/english/our.html

Information about Inuktitut, the Inuit’s spoken language

http://www.ainc-iinac.gc.ca/ks/english/language/inuktitut/wav/09-u-learn.wav

Spoken Inuktitut.

http://www.arctictravel.com/audio/index.html

Useful  phrases spoken in Inuktitut.

http://www.arctictravel.com

http://www.nunavut.com
 
 

Facts and figures about the Inuit living in Canada with useful links to any kind of subtopic.

http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/nunavut

Website for students with facts, quizzes, games about Nunavut.
 
 

FIELD, Edward  Magic Words – Poems by Edward Field, London 1998
Poems based on songs and stories of the Netsilik Inuit, collected by Knud Rasmussen.

WALLACE, Mary The Inuksuk Book, Toronto 1999
Describes and explains several inuksuits (things that can act in the place of a human being) Shows wonderful old photos of the people and drawings of inuksuits.
 



Literature

             http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/nunavut/
                  On this page there is a subtopic called „English and Literature“.
                  You find some Inuit stories there.

             http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6979/
                  On this site, you find a lot of different Native poems, prayers and songs.

                  Books:

                  - Nungak, Zebedee. Inuit stories: Povungnituk = Legendes Inuits. Translation
                  from Inuktitu into French by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. Hull, Quebec: Canad.

              Museum of Civilization, 1988.
                  This book contains a lot of Inuit stories. You find a french and an english
                  version.
                  There are also pictures and photographs.
 

                  - Usher, Peter J.  Die Inuit in Kanada. Ottawa, Ont. Communications and
                  Culture Branch: Dep. of External Affairs, 1988.
                  If you need background information on the Inuits, this is the right book for
                  you. Topics are:
                  - Ursprünge der Inuit
                  - Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Gesundheitspflege
                  - Das Leben in einer modernen Inuitsiedlung
                  - Das wirtschaftliche Leben
                  - Das politische Leben
                  - Das kulturelle Leben
                  - Die Stellung der inuit in der kanadischen Gesellschaft


Art

www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Inuit
Useful information on Inuit language, culture and history.

http://www.arctictravel.com/audio/index.html
Useful  phrases spoken in Inuktitut.

WALLACE, Mary The Inuksuk Book, Toronto 1999
Describes and explains several inuksuits (things that can act in the place of a human being) Shows
wonderful old photos of the people and drawings of inuksuits.
 



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