Indigenous peoples – Canada (page 1)

page 1: General ethnology | 
Relations with Government and non-Natives | 
Political organization | 
Economic activity | 
Social relations
page 2: Languages | 
Religion and ritual | 
Traditions, myths and legends | 
Science and knowledge | 
Recreation
page 3: Technology and material culture
(Food and food production, Shelter and habitation, Light and heat, Clothing and adornment, Arts, crafts and industries, Transportation, Weapons and armour) | 
Biography
page 4: Particular groups and communities
(Eastern Canada, Central Canada, Western Canada, Northern Canada)

 

General ethnology

A History of the Native People of Canada

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/archeo/hnpc/npint00e.shtml

Native Peoples of Canada

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/native-people

Aboriginal Awareness

http://www.aboriginalawareness.com/

The Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/search.aspx?area=browse&volume=76&articleID=38986

The First Nations of the New France Era

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/premieres_nations/en/index.html

Pride and Dignity: Aboriginal Portraits

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/aboriginal-portraits/index-e.html

Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples’ Photographic Perspectives

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/jaillir/jailline.shtml

Postcard Views of Indigenous Peoples

http://library2.usask.ca/postcardsindigenous/

 

Relations with Government and non-Natives

Aboriginal Law and Legislation

http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/ablawleg.htm

A Brief Introduction to Aboriginal Law in Canada

http://www.bloorstreet.com/200block/brintro.htm

Canadian Aboriginal Law

http://www.canadianlawsite.ca/aboriginal.htm

Les relations politiques entre le Québec et les peuples autochtones

http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/apqc/97_98/forest/forest.htm

The Segregation of Native People in Canada: Voluntary or Compulsory?

http://www.tgmag.ca/magic/mt3.html

The Douglas Reserve Policy

http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/files/PDF/DouglasReservePolicy.pdf

McKenna-McBride Royal Commission

http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/Resources/final_report.htm#axzz27Pj4kzOz

Canada in the Making: Aboriginals: Treaties and Relations

http://www.canadiana.org/citm/themes/aboriginals_e.html

Canada – Indian Treaties

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/indian-treaties

Indian Treaties

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/treaties/code/default.htm

Historic Indian Treaties

http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100028574/1100100028578

A Brief History of Treaty Seven First Nations

http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_treaties/fp_treaties_treaty7.html

Treaty 8, 1899-1999

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/treaty8/index-e.html

The Making of Treaty 8 in Canada’s Northwest

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208160518/http://www.albertasource.ca/treaty8/

Indian Affairs Annual Reports 1864-1990

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/indianaffairs/index-e.html

Did Peter Pond participate in the ethnic cleansing of Western Canada’s Indigenous Peoples?

http://mouv4x8.perso.neuf.fr/11Sept01/A9028_1_ClashofWorlds.pdf

An Historical Look at Canada and B.C.’s Relationship With First Nations

http://www.cariboolinks.com/ctc/history.html

Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Final Report

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071115053257/http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/sg/sgmm_e.html

Parallel Voices: Indians and Others — Narratives of Cultural Struggle

http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/756/662

Of Boundaries and Borders: First Nations’ History in Museums

http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/761/667

“Echoes of a Proud Nation”: Reading Kahnawake’s Powwow as a Post-Oka Text

http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/759/665

Canadian “Range Wars”: Struggles over Indian Cowboys

http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/760/666

The Participation of Aboriginal and Other Cultural Minorities in Cultural Development

http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/829/735

Setting the Foundation for the Settlement and Civilization of the Indians of Western Canada

http://victoria.tc.ca/history/etext/alexander.ross.proposal

The Gustafson Lake Standoff

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/macleans/gustafsen-lake-standoff-15-charged

Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields: The Wartime Contribution of Canada’s First Peoples

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/history/other/native
also at: http://net.lib.byu.edu/~rdh7/wwi/comment/nativee.html

Aboriginal Participation in Canadian Military Service: Historic and Contemporary Contexts

http://www.civilization.ca/research-and-collections/research/resources-for-scholars/essays-1/first-peoples/john-moses/aboriginal-participation-in-canadian-military-service

A Sketch Account of Aboriginal Peoples in the Canadian Military

http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/D61-16-2004E.pdf

The Fur Trade: The Indian an Indispensable Partner

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/canp1/ca12beng.shtml

The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada

http://www.nativestudies.org/native_pdf/circlegame.pdf

“She Is Hostile to Our Ways”: First Nations Girls Sentenced to the Ontario Training School for Girls, 1933-1960

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/20.1/sangster.html

 

Political organization

The Iroquois Constitution

http://www.indigenouspeople.net/iroqcon.htm

Nisga’a Government

http://nisgaalisims.ca/welcome

Tribal Councils

http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/eng/ao26449.html

History of the Assembly of First Nations

http://www.afn.ca/index.php/en/about-afn/our-story

Nature’s Laws

http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208160450/http://www.albertasource.ca/natureslaws//index2.html

 

Economic activity

The Fur Trade: The Indian an Indispensable Partner

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/canp1/ca12beng.shtml

Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site of Canada

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/ab/rockymountain/natcul/natcul2/05.aspx

The U’mista Cultural Centre Potlatch Collection

http://www.umista.ca/collections/collection.php

The Aboriginal Right To Fish

http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/LOP/ResearchPublications/bp428-e.htm

Legends of our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/rodeo/rodeo01e.shtml

Indian Cowgirls

http://www.moa.ubc.ca/Exhibitions/Online/Other/IndianCowgirls/cowgirl.html

Caribou Cowboys

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/mj97/feature_caribou_cowboys.asp

Yukon Indians and the Gold Rush

http://yukonalaska.com/klondike/indians.html

Aboriginal Business Case Studies in Canada

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/business/default.htm

Aboriginal Company Studies

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/company/default.htm

 

Social relations

Gifting and Feasting in the Northwest Coast Potlatch

http://140.247.195.10/potlatch/default.html

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