1. Aboriginal Ontario
   Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1994
   Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
2. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1987
   
3. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
   An Indian History of the American West
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1971
   A well documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian.
   
4. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2004
   Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
5. Canada Rediscovered
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1991
   
6. Children of Aataentsic
   A History of the Huron People to 1660
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   
7. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1990
   Columbus seen as a conqueror.
8. Columbus: His Enterprise
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   The traditional view of Christopher Columbus was as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to "discover" the Americas. Hans Koning gives us a different history of Columbus# life and voyages.
9. Commonwealth of Thieves
   The Improbable Birth of Australia
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
   
10. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
11. Continuing Poundmaker and Riel's Quest
    Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This book focuses on the criminal justice system and outlines self-government as the means for Aboriginal Peoples to achieve justice.
12. The Cypress Hills
    The Land and its People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    This book relates the history of the plateau, once a gathering place for Aboriginal Peoples, and how it has been changed through settlement.
13. Discovery in the North Atlantic
    From the 6th to 17th Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
14. Early Days on the Great Lakes
    The Art of William Armstrong
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
15. The Eternal Frontier
    An Ecological History of North America and its People
    Resource Type: Book
    
16. Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
17. Harvest of Devastation
    The Industrialization of Agriculture and its Human and Environmental Consequences
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Explains how western farming practices being imposed in other countries harm peasant communities, indigenous cultures, and the ecology.
18. A History of Canadian Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
19. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
20. The Hudson's Bay Company and The Fur Trude: 1670-1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
21. I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
    An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
22. In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
23. In Search of Ancient North America
    An Archaelogical Journey to Forgotten Cultures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
24. Indian Giver
    A Legacy of North American Native Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
25. The Iroquois in the War of 1812
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
26. Journey to the Ice Age
    Discovering an Ancient World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    
27. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
28. Lore
    Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
29. Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
30. George Manuel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest
31. A National Crime
    The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
32. Native Rights in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A report on the legal rights of the natives of Canada.
33. 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
34. 1992: A White Christian Perspective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
35. The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
36. The Only Good Indian
    Essays by Canadian Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
37. People of Terra Nullius
    Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
38. Pictures Bring Us Messages
    Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
39. The Polar Passion
    The Quest for the North Pole (Volume 2 of the Top of the World triology)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
40. Reservations Are For Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
    
41. Royal BC Museum
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
42. Shanawdithit's People
    The Archaeology of the Beothuks
    Resource Type: Book
    
43. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The history of the Americas through Native eyes.
44. This Land Is Not For Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Examination of Native land claims and development in Canada's north.
45. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
46. The Unjust Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.
    
47. The Wars of the Iroquois
    A Study in Intertribal Trade Relations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
48. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
    
49. The World Without Us
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    
50. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Aboriginal History in the Sources Directory

1. Australian Museum
2. Linden-Museum Stuttgart
3. National Museum of the American Indian
4. Royal BC Museum
5. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization