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Published collections of primary sources. These are licensed (subscribed) by the Library.
For example:
Newspapers and other collections of digitized primary sources. These are Open Access or free to access through libraries, archives, museums or other nonprofits.
Indigenous Heritage, Library and Archives Canada, https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/pages/introduction.aspx.
Indian Health Services/Medical Services Branch Annual Reports, 1945-1990, http://iportal.usask.ca/index.php?sid=934340211&id=33804&t=details&having=1800538
Vancouver Island Treaties and Translations, BC Archives, https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/bc-archives/what-we-have/indigenous-material/vancouver-island-treaty-translations.
Government of Canada, Treaty Texts, https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1370373165583/1370373202340. [Also here: https://archive-it.org/organizations/700?q=treaty+texts&page=1&show=Sites ]
Louis Bird, Omushkego Oral History Project, https://www.ourvoices.ca/index.
CBC Digital Archives, https://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/native-issues/
NFB (National Film Board), Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis), https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/indigenous-peoples-in-canada-first-nations-and-metis/
NFB (National Film Board), Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit), https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/indigenous-peoples-in-canada-inuit/
Indian History Film Project, University of Regina, https://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/26
Online sources: Open vs. subscription
What if it isn't online?
"When You Destroy Part of the Land, You Destroy Me Also. I Am Part of the Land." Akwesasne Notes, Early Autumn, 1973, 30. Indigenous Peoples: North America (accessed July 15, 2019). http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/KXBWRR383549107/INDP?u=bcptstothepast&sid=INDP&xid=eb0fbd09.
Collections include:
The Alaska Indian Language Collection (Gonzaga University)
The Association on American Indian Archives (AAIA and Princeton University)
Citizenship Case Files of the U.S. Court in Indian Territory, 1896‐1897 (U.S. National Archives)
Great Nemaha Agency Collection, 1866‐1873 (Wichita State University)
The Indian School Journal (Chilocco Indian School)
The Javitch Collection (University of Alberta)
Letters Sent by the Indian Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1849‐1903 (U.S. National Archives)
Moravian Mission among the Indians of North America (Moravian Archives)
The Pacific Northwest Tribes Missions Collection of the Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus, 1853‐1960 (Gonzaga University)
Papers of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Library of Congress)
The Papers of the Society of American Indians, 1906‐1946 (Private Collection of John Larner)
Records of the Creek Factory of the Office of Indian Trade of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1795‐1821 (U.S. National Archives)
W. S. Prettyman Photograph Collection (Wichita State University)
For example:
"first nations" "hydroelectric projects"
("first nations" OR aboriginal OR indigenous OR "indians of north america" OR "native peoples") (dams OR hydroelectric OR "hydro-electric")
"Cowichan sweaters" "cultural appropriation"
(Cowichan OR Quw'utsun OR Khowutzun) AND (sweaters OR knit*) AND ("cultural appropriation" OR "cultural property" OR "intellectual property" OR ownership)
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Index to secondary literature with some full text coverage and linking to external full text sources.
Searches from this VIU-authenticated version of Google Scholar link to VIU resources where applicable. Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
One useful article may help to locate others. For example:
Look at references (footnotes, endnotes, bibliography) to trace the sources the author used.
In this case, a potentially useful book is found in the Library collection.
More recent related sources can be found by tracing sources forward in time, with "cited by" in Google Scholar and sometimes in LibrarySearch.
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Finding your way through requires thought, care attention, and dialogue. It requires working with people. It requires the engagement and inclusion needed for a new conversation needed between Indigenous Peoples and settler society.
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