Our Legacy: Material relating to First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples, found in Saskatchewan cultural and heritage collections. Includes all transcriptions from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996.
Glenbow Library and Archives: Excellent library and archival resources on the western Canadian prairies, in particular
Hudson's Bay Company Archives: (1670 to Present) Excellent resource for information on the human and natural history of western and northern Canada and the western USA.
Metis National Council Historical Online Database: A database of high-resolution, digitized archival documents, photographs, and other resources, primarily from Library and Archives Canada. Intended for community members and academics who work toward constructing genealogies of the Metis people. Use the "Search" tab to locate documents by family name, date, and location or to browse them alphabetically or by date range.
SAIN: Saskatchewan Archival Information Network coverage varies. A database of descriptions of archival material held in Saskatchewan archives.
Sacred Texts Archive: Native American religion, mythology and folklore are covered extensively at this site.
IC Magazine - A Publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies: Dedicated to providing you with cutting-edge news and analysis concerning the rights, needs, interests, bio-cultural legacies and the contemporary struggles of the world's 6000 Indigenous Peoples and Nations.
Center for World Indigenous Studies: An independent, non-profit [U.S. 501(c)(3)] research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations.
UFDC- Native Americans Oral History Collections: Its collections include approximately 4,000 interviews and more than 85,000 pages of transcribed material, making it the largest oral history archive in the South and one of the major collections in the country. The transcribed interviews are available for use by research scholars, students, journalists, genealogists, and other interested groups. Researchers have used our oral history material for theses, dissertations, articles, and books.
Native American Authors: This website provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native American authors, although some historical authors are represented.
Government of Canada
ArchiviaNET Online Research Tool Current: An excellent resource from the National Archives of Canada for government information about Aboriginal people and related issues [details]
Indian Reserves - Western Canada ArchiviaNet. Includes database which provides item-level descriptions on approximately 1,500 maps, with approximately 1,200 digitized items, now in the public domain
Applied Research
Assembly of First Nations: First Nations Ethics Guide on Research and Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge.
Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada: Government of Canada. Panel on Research Ethics. Chapter 9 from the TCPS-2 (2014) focuses on research involving Aboriginal peoples in Canada, including Indian (First Nations), Inuit and Métis peoples, marks a step toward establishing an ethical space for dialogue on common interests and points of difference between researchers and Aboriginal communities engaged in research.
First Nations Periodical Index: The First Nations Periodical Index is a joint project of the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, Saskatoon Campus, the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre and the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples committee. This Index contains journals of mainly Canadian Native content and serves as a tool providing access to information about First Nations for students (high school or university), educators, instructors and researchers.
iPortal: Indigenous Studies Portal Research Tool (University of Saskatchewan): A database of full-text electronic resources such as books, articles, theses and documents as well as digitized materials such as photographs, archival resources, maps, etc. focusing primarily on First Nations and Aboriginals of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond. Anyone can use the freely available materials in the iPortal but some resources are licensed and may only be available through your own library.
Choose BROWSE BY TITLE and then scroll down to select INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: NORTH AMERICA. The archive includes extensive monograph, manuscript, newspaper, periodical and photograph collections.
Points to the Past: Provides free perpetual access to nearly 200 million pages of digital historical content to all BC Residents. Supported by University of Victoria Libraries, University of British Columbia Library, and Simon Fraser University Library. In collaboration with Gale, part of Cengage Learning.
North American Indian Thought and Culture: Documents North American Indian history through biographies, auto-biographies, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.
Ethnic NewsWatch: A full text database of 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Includes more than 100,000 articles in Spanish and over 400,000 in English.
MLA International Bibliography: A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and film. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers. It is compiled by the staff of the MLA Department of Bibliographic Information Services with the cooperation of more than 100 contributing bibliographers in the United States and abroad. Such international coverage is represented by literature from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and while the majority of records are from English-language publications, at least sixty other languages are represented including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish.