When Nelly Duvicq’s students held a print edition of L’inugagullirq in their hands for the first time a few weeks ago, their pride was palpable.
It was the end of a six-month-long process for the students in grades 5, 6 and 7 from Nuvviti School in Ivujivik — the northernmost village in Quebec’s Inuit territory of Nunavik, close to where Hudson Strait meets Hudson Bay.
L’inugagullirq, based on a local Inuit legend, has been published online as part of Un livre à la fois, a Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) project linking elementary and UQAM students, who work together to create