Indigenous-related topics: Getting started
A good place to begin a search about Indigenous-related topics. Find key resources, book lists, major reports and more.
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This guide shares information to help begin searches about Indigenous-related topics. We hope it is a good helper. The Library also has other Info Guides that share information resources about individual Indigenous-related topics. If you are interested in any of those topics, those guides are excellent places to begin a search
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- Indigenous Services at Winnipeg Public LibraryLearn about Indigenous Services at Winnipeg Public Library, including specially-designed spaces, the library's Indigenous Resources Collections and programming.
Manitoba-based organizations
- Indigenous Organizations in ManitobaSOURCE: Government of Manitoba
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | The Calls to Action | The Calls for Justice
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- COURSE: Indigenous Canada
SUMMARY: "Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions."
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
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The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in partnership with Canada's national Indigenous organizations, has created a groundbreaking four-volume atlas that shares the experiences, perspectives, and histories of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. It's an ambitious and unprecedented project inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action. Exploring themes of language, demographics, economy, environment and culture, with in-depth coverage of treaties and residential schools, these are stories of Canada's Indigenous Peoples, told in detailed maps and rich narratives.
This extraordinary project offers Canada a step on the path toward understanding.
The volumes contain more than 48 pages of reference maps, content from more than 50 Indigenous writers; hundreds of historical and contemporary photographs and a glossary of Indigenous terms, timelines, map of Indigenous languages, and frequently asked questions.
Publication Date: 2018
