LibGuides: Indigenous Resources: Welcome

Land Acknowledgement

Seneca’s campuses are located on the Land stewarded by Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat Nations. We acknowledge Treaty 13 (Toronto Purchase) signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and the Williams Treaty, signed with multiple Mississauga and Chippewa First Nations. We are all interconnected as treaty people with shared obligation to learn, respect, honour, and sustain.

- First Peoples @ Seneca

About

This subject guide highlights some of the resources available through the library and online on the histories, cultures, and experiences of Indigenous Peoples in the land we now know as Canada. This guide is not an exhaustive list of resources and serves as a starting point for research. Discover more resources by searching your topic in Library Search.

Books & eBooks

Streaming Videos

More Resources

First Peoples@Seneca

First Peoples@Seneca is dedicated to supporting Indigenous students (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) on our campuses. Services include advisement, tutoring, mentoring, workshops, cultural teachings, and social events. These services are offered in a culturally appropriate way to create understandings and learnings about Indigenous peoples.

Skoden for Faculty

About: SKODEN for faculty Teaching, talking and sharing about and for reconciliation
Skoden: Teaching, Talking, and Sharing About and for Reconciliation

Faculty Toolkit: Indigenous Inclusion

Relationship Building & Protocols

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge

Databases, Journals & Reports

Learning Resources

Journals

Magazines & News

Search for more publications using Journal Search

Websites

The Learning Portal Faculty Toolkit: Indigenous Inclusion Resources to increase awareness of Indigenous culture and perspectives. Strategies for creating space to learn, explore, grow and create relationships and environments that promote diversity and inclusion.
Indigenous Heritage (Library Archives Canada) Library and Archives Canada (LAC) acquires, preserves, and provides access to published and archival heritage material that represents First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nation experiences and contributions to Canada. This includes text, photographs, maps, and audio-visual material. Explore the collection through our online databases, digitized documents and thematic guides.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada (Canadian Geographic)
Indigenous Studies Portal The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, and digitized archival documents and photographs. The iPortal content has a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond. This initiative began in 2005 at the University of Saskatchewan as a resource for faculty, students, researchers, and members of the community and currently links to about 65,000 items. Anyone can use the freely available materials in the iPortal but some resources are licensed and may only be available from your own library.
Native-Land.ca

Video Playlists

Educational playlists: Indigenous Voices & Reconciliation (NFB)
Indigenous (Kanopy)
Indigenous-Made Animation Films (NFB) A selection of animated films made by Inuit, First Nations and Métis filmmakers at the NFB.
Indigenous Education (Curio) A theme examining the successes and challenges of Indigenous education in Canada today.
Indigenous Films (Curio) A look at Indigenous filmmaking in Canada and a selection of Indigenous films available on Curio.
Indigenous Governance (Curio) This theme examines issues of Indigenous governance, including land and resource managements rights, the future of the Indian Act and other laws and policies impacting Indigenous communities in Canada today.
Indigenous Language Revitalization (Curio) "I feel stronger, more powerful, wiser..." This is how one language speaker describes the personal impact of learning his mother tongue. This theme explores the efforts underway to reclaim Indigenous languages in Inuit, Métis and First Nations communities throughout Canada.
Indigenous Rights (Kanopy)
Indigenous Studies (Criterion on Demand)
Indigenous Studies (Kanopy)
Indigenous Youth Collection (Curio) This theme takes a closer look at the hopes, experiences and challenges of Indigenous youth in Canada today. Among the topics examined are cultural identity, community engagement, education, the environment and relations with law enforcement.
Residential Schools (Curio) Since the late 19th century, about 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were removed from their families and forcibly sent to residential schools. The last residential school, near Regina, closed its doors in 1996. Residential schools were a key tool of cultural genocide against Canada's First Nations. This theme provides a concise overview of this dark page in Canadian history.
True North Series (NFB) Take an intimate look at the rise of 5 aspiring athletes in Ryan Sidhoo's nine part docu-series that captures the raw emotion of navigating today’s youth basketball machine.
Truth and Reconciliation in Canada (Curio) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed as a means of reckoning with the devastating legacy of the residential school system. From 2008 to 2014, the commission heard stories from thousands of residential school survivors. In 2015, it released a report that included its Calls to Action – instructions to guide governments, communities and faith groups down the road to reconciliation.

Podcasts

Current Affairs

Indigenous Voices & Identity

Historical Topics

Residential Schools

Open Educational Resources (OERs)

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