Indigenous Communities

Resources

• Aboriginal Policy Initiative of the National Reading Campaign (Canada)

• Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC)

• American Indians in Children's Literature

• Association for Cultural Equity: Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Initiatives

• Beyond Land Acknowledgement: Resources (compiled by Adrienne Keene)

• Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center

• Decolonial Atlas

• Decolonising The Archive

• Decolonising Through Critical Librarianship

• Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society (Journal)

• Decolonization of Arctic Library and Archives Metadata (DALAM)

• Decolonizing Canadiana Metadata (Canadian Research Knowledge Network, January 25, 2022)

• Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming, and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries, and Archives (Webinar, October 2017)

• Ka’nhehsí:io Deer. "What's Wrong With Land Acknowledgements, and How to Make Them Better." CBC, October 21, 2021.

• ENRICH: Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation - Coordinating Hub

• Ethnos Project

• First Nations Communities Read (Southern Ontario Library Service)

• First Nations, Métis, Inuit -- Indigenous Ontology (FNMIIO)

• First Nations Public Libraries in Ontario

• Global Indigenous Data Alliance

  • CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance

• Guide to Acknowledging First Peoples & Traditional Territory (Canadian Association of University Teachers)

• Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement (Native Governance Center)

• Guidelines on Working with Indigenous Partners and Information (Getty Research Institute)

• Honor the Earth

• Honor Native Land : A  Guide and Call to Acknowledgement (U.S. Department of Arts and Culture)

• Indigenous Ally Toolkit

• Indigenous Archives Collective

• Indigenous Data Lab

• Indigenous Edit-a-thon Fall 2021 (Social Networks and Archival Context; event recordings and resources)

• Indigenous Knowledge Organization (from the Xwi7xwa Library)

• Indigenous Librarianship Resource Guide (University of British Columbia)

• Indigenous Peoples of North America WikiProject

• Indigenous Reads Rising

• Indigenous Subject Headings (Greater Victoria Public Library) (.pdf download)

• Indigitization: Toolkit for the Digitization of First Nations Knowledge

• Infusing Indigenous Perspectives in K-12 Teaching (University of Toronto Libraries LibGuide)

• Initiative for Indigenous Futures

• Land Acknowledgement and Beyond: Special Collections and Indigenous Community (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Webinars): part 1; part 2

• Land Acknowledgement Template for Personalization, Definitions, and Speaker Protocol (Library and Information Studies Students' Association, University of Alberta)

• Land Back

• Lau Ā Lau Ka 'Ike: Hawaiian Language Controlled Vocabulary and Metadata project (archived via Wayback Machine, now implemented on Ulukau.org)

• Local Contexts: initiative to support Native, First Nations, Aboriginal, and Indigenous communities in the management of their intellectual property and cultural heritage specifically within the digital environment. 

• Krista McCracken and Skylee-Storm Hogan. Decolonial Archival Futures. ALA Publishing, 2023.

• Metadata to Support Indigenous Knowledge and Non-Traditional Outputs (NISO Webinar, December 6, 2021)

• More than Words: A Guide to Land Acknowledgements (Western University Indigenous Initiatives)

• Mukurtu: Content Management System for Grassroots Digital Cultural Heritage

• National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance/Alliance nationale des connaissances et des langues autochtones NIKLA-ANCLA

• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Resource Database

• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (United States, National Park Service)

• Native Governance Center

• Native Land App

• New York Public Library: Resources to Explore Native American Cultures, Languages, and Literature

• NDN Collective

• The People and the Text Project

• Protocols for Native American Archival Materials

• Revised Vocabulary Describing Indigenous Peoples in the RVM (Répertoire de vedettes-matière, Université Laval)

• Saskatchewan Indigenous Subject Headings

• Seeding Sovereignty

• Sorting Libraries Out: Decolonizing Classification and Indigenizing Description conference, 2019

• Standing Rock Syllabus

• Sustainable Heritage Network

• Teacher and Librarian Resources for Native American Children's and Young Adult Books

• Two-Spirit Archives (University of Winnipeg)

• Whose Knowledge?

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Digital Collections

• American Indian Resource Center (Los Angeles Country Library)

• Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (University of British Columbia)

• Indigenous Digital Archive (IDA)

  • IDA Treaties Explorer

• Institute of American Indian Arts Library (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

• First Nations University of Canada Library

• Ka Waihona Puke ‘Ōiwi: Native Hawaiian Library

• Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

• National Indian Law Library (Boulder, Colorado)

• Passamaquoddy People's Knowledge Portal

• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington D.C. and New York City)

• Sq'éwlets Virtual Museum

• UCLA American Indian Studies Center Library (Los Angeles, California)

• Ulukau: Hawaiian Electronic Library

• Xwi7xwa Library (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Professional Organizations

• American Indian Library Association (Affiliate of the American Library Association)

• Archival Repatriation Committee (Society of American Archivists)

• Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums

• Indigenous Matters Committee and Resources (Canadian Federation of Library Associations)

• Indigenous Task Group (Ontario Library Association)

• Labriola National American Indian Data Center (Arizona State University)

• Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Funnel (Subject Authority Cooperative Program)

  • Best Practices in Authority Work Relating to Indigenous Nations in the U.S. (LAIPA, 2023)

• Nā Hawaiʻi ʻImi Loa: Association of Hawaiian Librarians

• Native American Archives Section (Society of American Archivists)

• New Mexico State Libraries, Tribal Libraries Program

• Tribal College Librarians Professional Development Institute

Blogs

• Archival Decolonist

• Decolonize All The Things

• Decolonized Librarian

• Unsettling America

Higher Education

• American Indian Higher Education Consortium

• Tribal College Journal

• Tribal College Map (American Indian College Fund)

• Native American Educational Services College

• Native Nations Institute (University of Arizona)

• Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (Northwestern University)

• First Nations University of Canada