Canadian First Nations Local & Tribal Histories & Resources

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Arctic Archaeology
Archaeology in Arctic North America
A nice informative site including a report on QkHn-12: A Thule culture site from High Arctic Canada
By Robert W. Park

Dan Shaule Williams Treaty Web Page

Early Photographers Of First Peoples In British Columbia - (dead link)
Brief "Note" from the Royal BC Museum

Exploring Saskatchewan History through the Decades
Story of the Missouri Coteau Region
Sections include: Geological History of the Area ; Aboriginal History of the Area ; The Trader's Trail & Railway ; Homesteading on the Prairies ; The Saloon ; Villages in the Area ; Kids & Games.
Canada's Digital Collections

First Nation Communities in B.C.

Grand Council of the Crees
(Eeyou Istchee)
Includes a nice collection of text documents & articles

Gwich'in of Alaska and Canada

History of the NW Coast
By Bruce Hallman

Indigenous Language Institute
"...collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas."

• Endangered Languages Database - (dead link)
  "This summary report includes one hundred and nine (109) language researchers reporting on 151 languages/dialects. Language researchers responded to our survey from Australia (3), Belize (1), Canada (8), China (1), Denmark (2), England (5), Germany (2), Hong Kong (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (5), Scotland (1), Spain (1), Venezuela (1), and the rest from the United States (75)."
  Linguistic Society of America / Committee on Endangered Languages & their Preservation.
• Native Languages Revitalization Resource Directory - (dead link)
  "Here you will find information about Native language programs and practitioners, publications, organizations, and a variety of resources for those involved in, or interested in starting, a language revitalization program."

Innu Nation - Mamit Innuat WWW Site
Includes Photo Archive, Land Rights page with further links, Innu texts, Women's Issues page, History & Culture, and a lot more.

The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
From Ancient Times to 1902
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Kwakuitl Recipies - Roasted Salmon
"This is George Hunt's translation of the Kwakuitl version of a Kwakuitl Indian recipe, told in the Kwakuitl language by his wife, Elie Hunt, circa 1914."

Living in Both Worlds: Inupiaq Women and Urban Life - (dead link)
"...adapted from a 'Commentary' article by Nancy Fogel-Chance in the journal Arctic, vol 47. no.4 (December 1994). A more detailed account of this research was published in Arctic Anthropology, vol. 30, No. 1, p p. 94-108, 1993."

MÈtis Nation Homepage
Michif Cultural Preservation Society

Nations autochtones du QuÈbec d'aujourd'hui - (dead link)

Native people of the Grand River valley

Petun Research Institute
"The Petun Research Institute is a registered charitable Foundation, incorporated in 1995 to conduct and publish interdisciplinary scholarly research particularly relating to the Petun-Wyandot native people. The Institute conducts archaeological surveys and excavations within the Petun Archaeological Zone of Ontario under applicable legislation, maintains an Artifact Repository, provides research facilities to accredited scholars, conducts and supports interdisciplinary studies and research related to the Petun-Wyandot and other native peoples, advises and assists researchers, educators, Native organizations and other appropriate agencies, provides public outreach and educational programs, and publishes research results."

Salmon: Spirit of the Land and Sea
"Join the One World Journeys team along with nature photographer Natalie Fobes, author Susan Zwinger, conservationists Ian and Karen McAllister aboard the Explorer as we travel the coastal waters of Alaska and British Columbia."
Sections include: Live Journey ; Saga of the Salmon ; Eco-Gallery ; People of the Salmon ; Learn and Explore.
- Presented by One World Journeys

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

• Learning Aids - (dead link)
  "We currently have information on published and "semi-published" teaching and general reference materials for the following North American Indian languages or groups of languages."

Storytelling
The Art of Knowledge
This exhibition illuminates the diversity of, and importance of sharing, narratives in six Native communities: Algonquin, Inuit, Mi'kmaq, MÈtis-Cree, Nisga'a and Abenaki
Online exhibit from the Canadian Museum of Civilization

Union of Ontario Indians
Includes Anishinabek News, Historical information, Education, & Links.
Anishinabek Nation

University of Toronto Libraries Digital Collections

• The Barren Lands
  J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada, 1892-1894
  "This site documents two exploratory surveys of the Barren Lands region west of Hudson Bay, in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the area now known as Nunavut. Drawing on materials from the J.B. Tyrrell, James Tyrrell and related collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, it includes over 5,000 images from original field notebooks, correspondence, photographs, maps and published reports."

We don't live in snow houses now
Interviews by Rhoda Inuksuk and Susan Cowan
Arctic Bay, Northwest Territories

Writing in Inuktitut: An Historical Perspective
Inuktitut. Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs, September 1983, pp. 3-35

Saskatchewan

Aboriginal Employment - (dead link)
Sections include: Looking for Work ; Recruiting Aboriginal People ; Links ; Role Models ; Saskatchewan Aboriginal Web Sites ; Aboriginal Organizations.
Especially strong for Saskatchewan.

Maintained by Mike Madin.
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